Blueberries, Domes, And The Strange Economics Of Keeping A Farm Alive

Why keeping a farm alive now requires blueberries, glamping domes, hospitality, events, Substack subscriptions, and a growing willingness to invent new revenue wherever reality leaves an opening.

From the Opinion Desk, I will say something unfashionable. A farm is not a pastoral mood board. It is a business with weather exposure, biological exposure, labor exposure, capital exposure, and the sort of margin profile that can turn a grown adult into a philosopher against his will.

That is the strange economics of keeping a farm alive now. You may ha…