A career in Farming?

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http://rosesforautism.com/

Roses for autism is training people with autism how to work on farms.


"the Roses for Autism Program is making Pinchbeck’s prized roses available to the community once again. The only difference in the roses offered today is that they are grown, cut and packaged in an integrated community with individuals on the autism spectrum."

Wow! I looked at the website and I think that this is a great idea. Those folks deserve a lot of credit for starting this enterprise. I hope that they are successful.

BTW I used to want to be a farmer, but ended up as an engineer instead. Some change!

in today's brutal corporate oligarchy [us of a] to be a farmer is to be a slave to monsanto, who uses every dirty trick in the book to make farmers use only monsanto's seeds. only very small scale farms a good geographic distance from the bulk of good farmland are exempt from this monopolistic monsanto racket. if it weren't for monsanto, farming would be a good aspie occupation.

True. Monsanto however only digs their fingers into the big production farms and crops... alternative or non-bulk profit stuff like roses and crops grown in hydroponic/aeroponic systems they dont bother with.

did anyone wanted to develop inhouse growing of plants? I am obsessed with making a completely off-the-grid (in electrical and road and pipe sense). So I was thinking about hydroponic/aeroponic systems along the walls but needs to have recycling system (waste from one plant goes into another and so on).
Also wastewater recycling is so important.
Ideas?

In Connecticut, you live next to a lot of rich people who are willing to pay a premium for locally farmed products. The Pinchbeck rose farm is reasonably close to both New York City and Boston.