We are the canary in the mineshaft. What we have to look at is our whole agriculture community. You know, rural life and everything like that. What is it worth?

They can go months before they do anything, and I told the minister we don't have that luxury anymore.

If nothing is done, next year we won't be holding a meeting. None of us will be in the hog industry, we'll be gone.

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the values with which it is popularly associated: conservation, independence, self-reliance, family, and community. To sustain itself, commercial agriculture will have to reorganize its social and economic structure as well as its technological base and production methods in a way that reinforces these values.

The whole point of it is to bring community back to agriculture. I don't know of any other wine-making community or area that produces such a wine.