/lit/ - Literature

>>15963949
This
If you can find it, watch the movie "Bitter Harvest" with Ron Howard

>>15965629
Even before globalization, collectivization put the Sword of Damocles over the food supply. In the East Bloc they had Lazar Kaganovich, in the West we had Earl Butz.

>>15964071
>Post examples of these grants. I can't find them.
Unironically this:

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-equality-fellowship

Here's an example of one of the applicants:
https://nesfp.nutrition.tufts.edu/new-american-resources

>>15964816
NPR listener detected. IDK about all of these authors, but Eliot Coleman, for example, doesn't have to make a profit because his wife's an architect or something.

>>15962983
This

There is a more realistic goal, and one that is almost certainly on the way for some of us: Raising plants & animals on a small scale to supplement a very low income or food shortages. For this, James Herriot is a good start.

But what you're really looking for is "USDA Farmers' Bulletin 1733 - Planning a Subsistence Homestead" (published 1934)