I have long been interested in how people nurture community and culture through agriculture. Although this relationship is often more prominent on small, organic farms, the farmers on large operations often also strive towards more sustainable and subsistence-oriented forms of agriculture, but have to content with pressures from the Capitalist economy. For my project on “Pockets of Peasantness”, I spent nine month in the farming community of the Central Finger Lakes of Upstate New York to understand the challenges of farmers in their struggle towards autonomy and subsistence.