We Built The Domes Because Commodity Farming Was Never Going To Be Enough

This farm still grows blueberries. It also hosts guests, sells experiences, and writes on Substack because modern farming asks small farms to build more than one way to survive.

I want to explain something that can sound romantic from the outside and very plain from the inside. We built the domes because commodity farming was never going to be enough.

That sentence contains less poetry than people might expect. It contains arithmetic, seasonality, cash flow, debt avoidance, labor reality, and a fairly direct conversation with th…