Growing Cash Crops Under the Eight Acre Plan

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on March 1, 1972
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PHOTO: MALYSHCHYTS VIKTAR/FOTOLIA
Strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and apples were to be the cash crops that would help small family farmers in Kansas.

If the small family farm is so great that thousands upon
thousands of us want to “get back” to one of these days,
how come the families who were already on those farms left
their 40 and 80-acre spreads in the first place? Well, the
truth be known, most of those families didn’t leave the

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