"Not many think my farm will survive," he said.

Community supported agriculture, he said, "is one of the only ways an organic farm could survive."

They also say that the market, not government, should ultimately decide which farms survive.

By the 16th century, only one farm survived.

She said flatly that the farm would survive any nuclear exchange.

The concentration is especially high in the Northeast, where small farms survive through farmers' markets.

"If the price goes up to four cents, multiplied by thousands of gallons a day, farms will not survive."

This year, fewer than 500 farms survive here, and farmers say about 100 are owned by blacks.

The farm survives on a $100,000 annual tribal subsidy.

They are united only in that they subsistence farm to survive, but base most of their social and cultural lives around the hunt.