Dear Farmers of Tomorrow,
Have you ever seen the movie, Interstellar? If you haven't, I encourage you to do so because it's great! The movie's plot paints a grim future where the only two careers children can choose are farming and science. It appears that humans have destroyed the world, and now the only course of action is ensuring that we don't starve or die out as a species.
Farming has and forever will be crucial to the survival of humans. Things have changed big time in the farming industry over the last fifty years moving from a large number of small-scale farming operations producing the vast majority of food to a small number of big-scale farming operations producing nearly all the food. It's crushed many small-family farms, but it's also enabled a higher productivity for cultivation and harvest.
As hemp is re-introduced back into agriculture, small-scale farmers now have the opportunity to reclaim a wonderful cash crop before the large corporations can. It's evident that the trends of goods and services are pushing towards more sustainable, eco-friendly, and organic options which means hemp could become the main source of all this. Plastic could be replaced by hemp, clothes, textiles, and even fuel. And local farmers could seize this opportunity to grow and sell to the incoming market!
How exciting to envision a world where small-scale farmers changed the course of history and helped heal the planet.
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