b'This is a story as small as a small farm, as brief as a decade, and as ripple- inducing as inklings of the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo philios.Imagination is to the mind what fertility is to the soil. Almost done. Almost begun.The day after the election, Tom Friedman wrote in The New York Times: I am certain the better angels of our nature are still out there. But our politics and our political system right now are not inspiring them to emerge at the scale and speed that we so desperately need. 7Inspiration. Sometimes it comes with speed and scale. Sometimes it comes from another direction, belying the numbers. A few million dollars a year, a few tens of millions of dollars or more, in scores of communities, supporting tens of thousands of farmers and food entrepreneurs around the countrythis all can be counted. Not so for inspiration. Nor, for its financial, cultural and ecological implica-tions 50 years from now.May this Epilogue be a Prologue.7 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/trump-biden-election-2020.html17'