The Relativity of calling a farm "old"

     The AP has distributed a story about an almost 400 year old family farm going out of business in New Hampshire, and there are folks blaming corporate farming and other big businesses.
     The story got me thinking about what is called Alabama's oldest farm...in Madison County. Alabama Heritage did a story about it in late 2008. It's half as old as the New Hampshire place.

     Anybody know of any older farms in Alabama? How about the Native Americans who predate Europeans arriving here? Didn't they farm too? Yup! According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama:

Agriculture has been practiced in what is now Alabama for centuries. Prehistoric Native Americans practiced slash-and-burn agriculture, in which they cut and burned forests to make room for their fields of corn, beans, and squash. Early European travelers through Alabama described vast areas of the landscape that were open savannahs, probably the result of natural or human-made fires.

   Gee, isn't "slash and burn" what Alabama's first setters did too? When you have no machines to help do the work, there's not a lot left, is there?
   I'm also sure there were "farmers" in New Hampshire before the 1632 Tuttles too, but what's in a name?