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I don't want food to be cheap, I want to get paid a decent price for the crop I grow.
I pay top dollar for tires, for phones, cloths etc. I pay for welders and mechanics
they are not cheap so why should food be cheap? In other parts of the world the
price percentage of paycheck is much higher.
I am for quality food, I am for an abundant safe supply of food but not cheap food.
The whole notion about the farm gardens and urban approach is not practical and
that is evident. In the next twenty years urban living will see building going higher
not spread out and back yard chickens won't be part of the equation.
The supermarkets are a problem now, but governments of the last half century
have endorsed a cheap food policy. The problem is its cheap for consumers but
farmers face ever increasing costs and less and less return. In BC for example
just quit farming is not an option. Farmland here goes for 60 to 100 thousand
dollars an acre. One has to keep farming to pay the mortgage and the expenses.
Forget subdividing as well there is a land reserve for farming so you can't just
build on it. Nope its time the consumer bought less apple phones and paid for
their food like the rest of the world. One of the best cures would be supply management
in all sectors, that way the farmer would get his share.

Now, thanks to urban famrs, young people are thinking of farming as a career, and they never did ten years ago. This is good as so many young people think our food comes from a supermarket. Ten years ago no one thought of being a farmer, now they do, that's good.

There are immigrants in Vancouver growing intensely productive farms/gardens in their back yards. One guy was growing so many beans he had to use steel instead of wood to support their growth. Not to mention his ten different kinds of fig trees growing and half a dozen other products.

As a byproduct urban farming could cause the end of supply management that limits chicken, egg and milk production as more find out limiting food production is a sick joke.