[defrost]

> This is probably one of the worst posts about minimal technology I've ever seen online.

Harsh, I thought of it more as having an adorable level of cluelessness.

> no reason to abandon the idea of professional farming just because the population declined

Indeed, both for economies of scale and for the fact that existing modern farmlands are like butter to work - the major and minor tree roots of the past are gone, the rocks have been picked or sifted out, deep clays have been ripped up and mixed with sandy surface soils, etc. In this part of the world there are many 4,000 hectare farmlands made up of uniformly graded soils ready to work with less energy input than virgin land requires (whether with new or old methods).

Veering away from looking backwards:

We're also on the cusp of having self docking and charging autonomous agri bots running from battery farms - not quite there yet .. but "watch this space".

The trick with such things is keeping rent seeking cloud based VC's out of the loop and parts replaceable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEKN7CsjnM