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Spite Farms manifesto

You shouldn’t have to do this.

Read about somebody growing food, to learn about how and why they’re doing it, in order to decide if their approach aligns with your morals and your conception of what nutrition should look like.

Waste of time. Time you should be able to spend doing whatever it is you love, confident in the knowledge that delicious healthy food will be available to you whenever you get hungry.

You shouldn’t have to bother, but you have no choice. Because the abundant and formerly cheap food you have easy access to—well, that food might be brought to you by child labor. It might be produced in a manner that poisons waterways and aquatic life, and might in fact be poisonous to you.

We shouldn’t be here, doing this, either. Between us we have an embarrassment of highly valuable skills. Software engineering, infrastructure engineering, data analysis. Advanced mathematics and rhetoric, linguistics, pedagogy. Multiple foreign languages.

But we’ve found that most opportunities to leverage those skills involve some serious ethical compromises. Maybe working at a company that is cooking the planet, engaging in (alleged) wage fixing, or simply doing war stuff.

So rather than working for one of those companies, making the kind of big money that allows you to buy less poisonous food, here we are. On a one acre patch of land, resentfully caring for a bunch of obnoxious chickens, planting (with great annoyance) fruit and nut trees, and (indignantly) growing vegetables. So that we, and eventually you, can eat good.

Welcome to Spite Farms.