A study of small truck farms in the Washington, D.C. area showed that despite intensive labor and a double cropping system, a farmer was often clearing only $500 annually by raising produce for the city markets.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Mechanized farming was also capital intensive.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
I-I kind of figured that out myself in these last few weeks of intensive soul-searching.
"Once a Greech"
Evelyn E. Smith