“I have chosen small-scale agriculture because it is something I can do myself. I can make the decisions, I can be in control, I can manage the system myself. I really like growing food and products I can use directly as opposed to commodity crops which are a little more removed. I like the directness of it and the small scale.”

Janette Ryan Bush, Iowa City, Iowa – Johnson County from Voices of Iowa Farm Women, 2004 by Cynthia Vagnetti