00:00 Introduction from Smitheram
02:00 Gardner begins speaking
03:00 Discussion of issues related to small-scale farming
04:00 Quantitative discussion of small-scale farming compared to the 1940's
05:00 Discussion of changes to crop planting trends due to increased mechanisation of farming
06:00 Discussion of small-scale farming in relation to "baronial capitalism"; discussion of "communist" countries in relation to agriculture
08:00 Discussion of economic issues with regards to small-scale farming; discussion of agriculture in PEI
10:00 Discussion of potential alternatives for agricultural practices in PEI; community enterprise
12:00 Discussion of UPEI's role in potential community enterprise approach; discussion of Shell corporation
13:00 Discussion of the benefits of a community enterprise system
15:00 Discussion of community enterprise in relation to co-op systems; drawbacks of co-op system
18:00 Discussion of a "resource guild" system; example of such a system in the Basque country region of Spain
22:00 Discussion of resources found in PEI; forest land
23:00 Discussion of equipment sharing
24:00 Discussion of aquaculture
27:00 Further discussion of agricultural issues; relation to practices
29:00 Discussion of specialised agriculture
32:00 Discussion of problems linked to monocultures; pesticides
33:00 Further discussion of Basque agricultural practices
34:00 Discussion of the future for small-scale farming in PEI
36:00 Discussion of culture in PEI, relation to farming
37:00 Beginning of question period; question relating to marketing
39:00 Question regarding failure of co-ops, relation to culture
44:00 Question regarding co-ops that did succeed in PEI
46:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding GNP; discussion of agriculture in Nordic countries
48:00 Question regarding family farms
52:00 Inaudible question; answer regarding economic challenges of small-scale farming
54:00 Discussion of the banking system in relation to small-scale farming
56:00 Question regarding research institutes
59:00 Question regarding transition from monoculture to small-scale
01:00:00 Discussion of self-sufficiency
01:01:00 Further question regarding marketing
01:05:00 Question regarding a pilot project of a system similar to the Basque system discussed
01:06:00 Question regarding corporate farming, relation to government policy
01:09:00 Question regarding universities and small-scale farming
01:10:00 Discussion of American agricultural policy; question regarding capital necessary to initiate Basque farming system
01:13:00 End of seminar
