{"id":55162,"date":"2020-09-26T07:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T12:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55162"},"modified":"2020-09-26T07:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T12:43:56","slug":"on-the-efficiency-of-my-scythe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55162","title":{"rendered":"On the efficiency of my scythe"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/2020\/09\/on-the-efficiency-of-my-scythe\/\">On the efficiency of my scythe<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The time is nearly upon us when the feature-length version of my musings here will be released upon an unsuspecting world \u2013\u00a0<em>A Small Farm Future<\/em>\u00a0(the book) will be available from 15 October in the UK and 21 October in the US. Various launch events are in the offing, and I\u2019ll be gearing the blog for a while to come to riffing on various themes from the book. So watch this space\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I have one final bit of outstanding business to attend to before turning my attention to the book \u2013 though in many ways this post serves as well as anything as an introduction to its themes. Whereas my last couple of posts addressed the politics of an agrarian localist future, this one addresses farm scales, styles and technologies in such a future. Again, it comes in the form of a critical engagement with a specific individual, in this case grower and small-scale farmer Seth Cooper, who I debated with a little while ago online. I promised I\u2019d respond further to some of his points, hence the present post. Apologies if my excerpting of his comments and interpolation of replies seems combative (I\u2019m going to try to stop doing this kind of thing!) \u2013 hopefully it will also be illuminating, and my thanks to Seth for drawing out this discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Our debate focused in large part on the kind of tools and equipment appropriate to farming, small farming in particular, so I\u2019m going to go with that in this post \u2013 but hopefully it\u2019ll work obliquely as an entry into wider issues. Even more specifically, we talked about the virtues or otherwise of the scythe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the efficiency of my scythe The time is nearly upon us when the feature-length version of my musings here will be released upon an unsuspecting world \u2013\u00a0A Small Farm Future\u00a0(the book) will be available from 15 October in the UK and 21 October in the US. Various launch events are in the offing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15683,299,1912,9738,786,4021],"class_list":["post-55162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-chris-smaje","tag-farming","tag-food-production","tag-small-farm-future","tag-technology","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55163,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55162\/revisions\/55163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}