Welcoming Home the Farm Next Door:
Small Farms are Returning Tiny homes builder the harvest moon rises in the sky, the faint memory of a nation of local farms celebrating another season of abundance lingers in the air. But soon it may be more than just a vision of long ago. More often now, if we turn the corner, the farm is real. A new form of farm is becoming more and more visible. Under the umbrella term "micro eco-farm," they thrive from backyards to small acreage, and are prospering in our new century. World travel and the Internet have introduced new crops for them, allowing them to grow heirlooms and gourmet varieties not produced large-scale. And global interaction has also brought to them the methods discovered worldwide for organically producing very large amounts on very small plots of land, including backyards. Both ancient discoveries and 21st century research has helped the new micro eco-farm come to life. Historically, the Incans fed 15 million, always with a three to seven-year surplus. Chin