CP-33 presents one possible solution to bringing gentleman bob back into something people don't have to refer to a "put and take".
CP-33 won't solve everything because "everything" would essentially require us to go back to small farms-those usually described as "hardscrabble" farms or small family farms; the ones where there were 11 children because that's what it took to run a farm with enough surplus to feed the family.
With absolutely no post-modern irony and as a southerner descended from share-croppers, I wouldn't wish that life on anyone. I know the post-reconstruction south that was so kind to gentleman bob was providing a hard life for poor blacks and poor whites alike. Economies of scale don't care about skin color.
However, after a few successful generations on the farm where a broad array of crops (vs modern mono-culture) and plenty of what are now called "dirty" fallow edges we might start to see the return of gentleman bob. If we were to travel above the mason-dixon line we would also see the possible expansion of ruffed grouse- a win/win!
If you read James Howard Kunstler it would be understandable if you saw real hope for a return of wildlife in the dissolution of suburbia and the abandoning of subdivisions under construction. And I can't say I drive by several orchards of PVC stubs sticking from the ground, waiting for "development" to be built around them, and think about that. To wit-there are even reports of pheasant returning to downtown Detroit.
Personally, I hope for a bit less of a dystopic process will help the bob; such as the extension of reasonable farm bills.
A good description of CP33 by Mississippi:
CP-33 won't solve everything because "everything" would essentially require us to go back to small farms-those usually described as "hardscrabble" farms or small family farms; the ones where there were 11 children because that's what it took to run a farm with enough surplus to feed the family.
With absolutely no post-modern irony and as a southerner descended from share-croppers, I wouldn't wish that life on anyone. I know the post-reconstruction south that was so kind to gentleman bob was providing a hard life for poor blacks and poor whites alike. Economies of scale don't care about skin color.
However, after a few successful generations on the farm where a broad array of crops (vs modern mono-culture) and plenty of what are now called "dirty" fallow edges we might start to see the return of gentleman bob. If we were to travel above the mason-dixon line we would also see the possible expansion of ruffed grouse- a win/win!
If you read James Howard Kunstler it would be understandable if you saw real hope for a return of wildlife in the dissolution of suburbia and the abandoning of subdivisions under construction. And I can't say I drive by several orchards of PVC stubs sticking from the ground, waiting for "development" to be built around them, and think about that. To wit-there are even reports of pheasant returning to downtown Detroit.
Personally, I hope for a bit less of a dystopic process will help the bob; such as the extension of reasonable farm bills.
A good description of CP33 by Mississippi:
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