The build of a seed spreader from cheap parts and a leaf blower.

I believe that many small farms get into financial difficulty because they get into serious debt, buying more equipment than they actually need, because that is the business model they were taught. That's the way we always did it. This question will be at the core of what we attempt to better understand at Lapeyrouse Lands. It is a complicated issue, driven by a push from "Big Ag" to stop following nature and start trying to force control over the land with chemicals and processes that require big equipment. This practice, we have come to learn, is not only bad for the land and the products produced, it is bad for the farmer. The financial burden of a dependence on tilling, plowing, seeding, fertilizing, to take land that wants to naturally produce something and forcing it to grow something else is a major cause of the loss of small farms today. Fighting the natural processes, leads to a dependence on pesticide, herbicides, genetically modified crops, that turn a natural process with ebs and flows into a "controlled" farming process that is very expensive and produces an inferior product, albeit more of it. This will be a recurring topic at Lapeyrouse Lands where we will explore ways of doing things differently. Not always new ways, but often OLD ways that really worked best.