b'year after the tillage to see how the structure has developed. The finding is that there is hardly any structure to the soil; one year is not nearly enough to begin the development of a soil ecosystem.The finding. It is abundantly clear that Mike Madison has done a lot of finding over his thirty years of farming. In financial terms, he has found his way to just over $100,000 of annual revenue, with almost all sales direct to consumers at the local farmers market, located eight miles away. In cultural terms, he has found his way to make a small but clear contribution to systemic change, by creating a countervailing node to the impacts of industrial farming, which impacts he summarizes thus: Biodiversity per acredecreased; jobs per acredecreased; energy efficiencydecreased; local income from agriculturedecreased; soil carbon per acredecreased; CO 2emissions per acresincreased. In personal terms, he has found his way to a way of life:We live in a beautiful place, we have many friends, were healthy, we have meaningful work, and we have wholesome food to eat and good local wine to drinkwhat would we want with more money? Our aim has always been to stay within what Ivan Illich called the narrow range that separates enough from too much. Our current income keeps us in that range. It seems adequate, and were not motivated to increase it. 17To a sophisticated investor, Madisons farm would be called, typically with some dismissiveness, a lifestyle business, that is, an enterprise that isnt serious because it lacks the ability or drive to get bigger and generate greater profits. 17 Fruitful Labor, p. 116141'