Dominant Themes

Hegemonic Masculinity: overcoming environmental forces to maximize output and the instilled ideas good farming

Masculine Pride: pride gained from completion of physical production

Feminine Pride: pride gained from helping and nurturing roles

Time-Space Relationships: the relationships biological organisms form within a given geography over time and how those relationships are identified with words

Beneviolent authority: the assumption that players rely on outside authority to create incentives for cooperation and fairness

Reputation: being either a: risk source, a competitive advantage, or a strategic asset

"You could argue that pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers make farming easier. . . all the environmental consequences from those products, which in the long run, may actually make farming much more difficult"

"If you're growing it organically that adds like a substantial level of difficulty. . . you cant use the same pesticides and herbicides and yeah, I don't know, maybe your vegetables won't be as large"

 

"I love like cooking, eating good food, finding good food, going out and getting food"

 

"Ask them yourself, in person, their growing practices, and small talk and conversational things. . . food provides a lot of opportunities for people to come together"

 

 

 

"Instead of like all this and a little bit of environment it should be at least 50/50 like just because politics"

 

 

 

 

"Yeah, I think that reputation is very important. . . important, just to be like excited about what you are doing and having fun while you are doing it"