1.  Wood/Farm/Town as a spatial/social model
 Wood
 Town
 "Farm" as the zone between

2.  Inherited model of 'rural'
 Countryside with farmers
 Churches/barns/houses
 Farmers as normative people
 Small-scale agriculture as normative rural life

3.  Historical model of 'rural'
 Settlement pattern
 Town projected into the Wood [fur trade]
 Rural as a zone of military/economic exploitation
 Soldiers/merchants in the landscape with farmers

4.  Rural mosaic
 Primary institutions
 Primary people in the primary institutions
 Farmers have many non-farming neighbors
 Rural does not mean exclusively farming
 Rural as a system/network concept

5.  Key terms of discourse
 Rural
 Country
 Farm
 Agriculture
 Natural
 Wild
 Wilderness
 Forest
 Town/city
 Urban
 Suburban