If we can do that, then we can begin to market it. We would like to get to the point where the demand for Gladys homemade sofrito is so great that no matter how much land we have here can t meet the demand. Our rural farmers. We use our identity to create markets that exceed our capacity to provide the raw inputs. Community-based regional economic development is a collection of grassroots efforts, where you identify the linkages and begin to realize how do we compete in the global marketplace.
Agriculture is a technology, and it disrupts the natural flow of things.
If you disrupt your ecosystem through the act of living, over a certain period of time it becomes uninhabitable. That s why 90 percent of the species ever on the planet have become extinct. We re going to distort and transform the environment by our act of living, obviously. The question is can we understand some of the patterns. That doesn t mean being passive and sitting back and saying you re going back to the land.