explain thoreau's philosophy on farming as expressed in his sentence, "I believe that [i did]better than any farmer in concord did that year.'

Thoreau was pretty happy about his farming, especially because he wasn't a farmer. He grew all his own food on his land without money from a bank. Thoreau felt he was one up on farmers who he felt were indebted to others. Check out the first paragraph in this link,

http://simplicitycollective.com/thoreau/thoreau-on-food