b'largely shaped the modern mindset: We must produce more food, at efficiencies of scale, because global population is heading towards 10 billion. Yet only a few AHA!s are needed to reveal the incompleteness of this narrative.1. 40% of the food currently produced either never gets to market or does so only to be ultimately discarded.2. 75% of the corn grown in the United States goes to cars and cowsthe latter requiring six pounds of corn to produce one pound of meat (which statistic does not account for the health and environmental problems attending feedlots and the fact that a cows ruminant digestive system is designed for grass).3. Production volume per acre from a small, diversified, organic farm is much greater than that of a large industrial monocul-ture$5,000 to $25,000 of revenue per acre from multiple crops and husbandry vs. $750 per acre from, say, corn. No, the problem is not productivity. Ours is a problem of culture. The words culture and cultivation share the same root:The very word culture meant place tilled in Middle English, and the same word goes back to Latin colere, to inhabit, care for, till, worship. . .To be cultural, to have a culture, is to inhabit a place sufficiently intensely to cultivate itto be responsible for it, to respond to it, to attend to it caringly. 3If it is fundamental, structural change that we need and wantand calls for such are being heard with increasing frequency from marchers, investors and politicians, alikethen an essential part of this work must be at the level of small organic farms and local food systems. 3 Edward S. Casey, as cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture10'