b'While Logsdon did not attempt to chart a strategic course from where we are today to where we might be in 50 years, he envisioned, with more than a little lively seriousness, the contours of possible desti-nations. To him, the unsustainability and undesirability of industrial agriculture were obviousperhaps most immediately in the way it drives midsized farmers out of business and turns large industrial farmers into wealthy serfs. Ultra-practical lessons learned at the level of manure management and household economics led him to ultra-thought-provoking inklings of large-scale social transformation:The United States has more acreage in lawn than in cultivated crops. Let us say that fifty million homes. . .would each put an eighth of an acre under cover. That would add up to some 6.25 million acres. With the higher yields possible in enclosed farming, each of those acres might produce three times the yield of an open air acre. . .(If that sounds dubious to you, read Eliot Cole-mans books, where he describes how to get five crops per year under cover in Maine.) . . .If each those enclosed one-eighth acre farms were housing six egg-laying and meat-producing hens and a pig or two to eat the plant parts from the greenhouses too overripe for humans, we could be looking at a significant amount of food production that would not depend on the gambling whimsy of the Chicago Board of Trade or the weather. 1313 Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm, Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017), pp. 34-3526'