The other concern I have about small-scale farming I had, arose because I had this notion about "What if we could eliminate food deserts that are literally in the desert through household hydroponics?"

It sounded like such an awesome idea. Federated food! What a revolution!

But I also found out there's a ton that can go very wrong when you have no idea where food came from or how it is grown.

It's also my experienced opinion that a not-small percentage of the human population in this metropolis range from clinically insane to dangerously ignorant.

Industrial farming sucks in a lot of ways, but I'm also glad the (horribly underfunded) FDA and USDA exists.

Perhaps pushes for education in this field could go a long way? It seems outside of farming communities, food production is very much thought of as "farmers' work." and not much else.