b'great extent, and that the critical barriers to this transition will be social and economic. 15Chief among the economic barriers are the cost of farmland and the cost of local, organic food. On the money side, were talking about sums of philanthropy, investment, government assistance and nurture capital that would be inconceivable were it not for what the pandemic is teaching us about the costs of crisis response and emergency reme-diation. On the social side, were talking about food deserts, elitism, school lunches, farm workers, animal welfare, urban migration, fly-over country, factory farms and fast food. These challenges cannot be tackled working only from the top down, at the level of policy, regulation, subsidy and institutional reform. They also call for, and offer many wonderfully promising opportunities for, Logs-donesque imagination, grassroots engagement and local investment.I recently came across the story of three decades of small-scale organic farming that is as heartening as it is elegantly practical. It comes from Mike Madisons Fruitful Labor: The Ecology, Economy, and Practice of a Family Farm. 16This slim volume documents simply and thoroughly the nuts and bolts of his organic, 23-acre farmits crops, cultivation methods, energy flows, environmental impacts and economics. The degree of transparency and care are remarkable. He includes an itemiza-tion of each crop (the number of individual plants), the number of tools (with, for the major ones, their cost and estimates of hours/year of use), estimates of the biomass of large herbivores on the cultivated part of the 15 The Potential for Local Croplands to Meet U.S. Food Demand, Andrew Zumkehr and J Elliott Campbell (Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment, 2015) [https://www.esa.org/frontiers-in-ecology-and-the-environment/]16 Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018139'