i don't think we should romanticize agriculture a, you know, life in 19 hundred. We have three % of americans less now, abut to something on the farm,. That's a tribute to human creativity, technology and so on. But we've also lost something. And this is a way to recapture some of what modernity, i think, has robbed us.
What did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she'd grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you've caught a false albacore). That all it takes to build a coop is the will and the right power tools, and that when it comes to homegrown produce, you've got none until you've got way too much. But most of all, she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts in talking about her book To Boldly Grow, she learned that figuring stuff out to solve problems is more delicious than the most decadent of desserts.