So, this might come as a surprise to you, but I also grew up on farmland and raised crops and animals. I'm not speaking from a point of ignorance, but rather experience--and I am beginning to think, that despite the profound depths of condescension you seem to be capable of, they aren't quite deep enough and that you are wildly overestimating the capability of the average schmoe. Firstly because the people signing up for homesteading courses and self-educating themselves are in fact a tiny minority of the population, despite their sum total being large enough to appear to be a huge movement in and of itself. And Secondly because being a farmer means your interactions with the rest of the population are subject to a rather severe bias. I would know--I was also one.

So point your patronizing dismissal somewhere else and think about the types of people that make up the bulk of the city-dwelling population: The vast hordes of starbucks consumers and popculture addicts, and not the tiny tiny percentage who are aware of the need for raising their own food and are capable of teaching themselves how.

ass.