I live in a farmhouse on an old farm, I'm not a farmer, I have land with woods ,and I grow fruit and vegetables ,and have chickens and a pig , although I don't farm. The other afternoon I spent two or three hours broad forking my veg patch , at the same time my neighbour (who lives the other side of the village and owns the land next to us) began to cultivate his field, he finished in the same time as me and moved on to the next field ,his field is the same area as all our land surface. He is a farmer. There's no escaping the economy of scale, and any romantic idea that farmers have a little red tractor is dilutional. Farmers can and eventually ,will adopt regenerational technics using big equipment, but it will forever be an industrial process. The foot print of my neighbours tractor and cultivater is bigger than my veg patch.