Today, however, there are fewer and fewer farming communities that one can belong to. If a farmer operates hundreds of acres, the nearest neighbor may be miles away. This may not be so bad if the family farm were practicing sustainably and so already experiencing much connection and community, but for the specialized farmer, this situation only aggravates feelings of isolation. Community isolation is not limited to the rural scene. Technology keeps people in the towns and cities closed in their homes even more than their rural counterparts.
Most households have their own of each of the modern appliances viewed as necessities.
When people do go into the community, it is generally done via the confines of a vehicle. Having explored how and why today's method of farming is hurting the individual farmer, let's shift the focus to instances in which farming communities understand the importance of a connection to the land and one another. Here we will see an overall contentment in individual farmers. The Amish are a people of European decent who have largely carried on in their traditions in spite of those around them catagorizing them as backward and unprogressive. They exist as a subculture in every sense of the word.