Posted on 01/12/2018 6:35:37 AM PST by frogjerk
On Thanksgiving Day, while America ate its biggest, most famous meal of the year, The Washington Post wrote about something for which everyone ought to be thankful: more millennials are taking up farming.
That’s right: For the first time in a long time, a growing number of young Americans are ditching cities and desk jobs to sow seeds and pull weeds. In fact, it’s only the second time in the last century that the number of farmers ages thirty-five and under has increased.
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Wonder what they’ll grow? How about 40 acres and a mule for our black folk? Spread them out in red districts. Gerrymandering will be a bitch.
>>Once they experience how much hard work it takes
[Kenya: Aquaponics, produce more in less space]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Q-IM8P99Y
Not quite grandpa’s farm.
Hemp, weed, organic vegetables. For millenials its all about experience. Once that experience is in the brain its onto the next organic, artisan, artisnal, craft, infused, exotic food or place. They suffer from acute exoticism.
From what I read they want to be hobby farmers.
Growing things for profit is darned hard, even hobby gardening.
Now I’m a Farmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maT0wn6dQd0
It’s unbelievably hard work.
24/7/365
No sick days, no personal leave days, no holidays
My grandma was worked to her death on a small farm by the time she was 55.
They raised almost everything themselves
They had field crops, vegetable gardens, chickens, ducks, dairy cows, a few pigs
Heated entirely with wood they harvested from their own land.
Every time I go into a grocery store I look around at the bounty and thank God for capitalism and division of labor.
Like dude, isn’t there an app for like, farming and stuff?
“Green Acres is the place to be, farm livin’ is the life for me”
Land is expensive, equipment is expensive. What kind of farming are millenials doing? pot farming? Have to wonder about the authors source.
After WW 2 many went to gentleman farming with 10 acres and grew their own food.
It was a big dream in the 50s then again with the back to the land movement in the seventies.
In the nineties there was another push for growing own food.
Seems to be something that goes around and around.
And its incredibly stressful. They are always at the mercy of the weather and the weather generally doesn't want to cooperate. There's a big difference between having a little vegetable plot in the back yard and trying to support yourself and your family through farming and it takes a special kind of person to do it.
Well, let’s hope it sticks. Multicultural transgender studies don’t put food on the table.
I would say most Millennials are not up to traditional farming, even the high tech version. Yet hobby farms that can secure a farm to market/table business relationship can prosper. Throw in agri-tourism plus government largess and you might have a winning business paradigm.
They’ll grow Refer.
Millennials...farming....
HaHaHa. I heard that before.
More like pot gardening.
You can’t just go into farming. I’ve run the numbers many times the math doesn’t work. Land costs to much and the debt burden to high to make a profit. You have to inherit land or form a private corporation and get investors. Who wants to invest in a farm?
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