This is great. I have this vision we should all have two careers now. Our current M to F tech jobs and being farmers again. All of us. Like the industrial revolution has this last step. Back to farming but this time with tech.
(TBC: Love hobby gardening, community gardens are cool, I hear some folks are doing cool stuff with urban agriculture, just seems weird to imagine it as a ubiquitous second career)
But I’ve had a small garden for years and it’s 100% not worth it due to the small yield and extremely high labor.
And just because you have a small garden does not mean agricultural pests are easily managed… in fact they are still absolutely a massive problem.
Big farms are 100% better suited at growing crops. An hour I spend on my garden is probably only 30 seconds on a large farm if you compare on yield.