Posted on 11/26/2017 6:08:34 AM PST by Cecily
Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.
The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs. So were the benefits. But two years ago, the 32-year-old Whitehurst — who graduated from a liberal arts college and grew up in the Chicago suburbs — abandoned Washington for this three-acre farm in Upper Marlboro, Md.
She joined a growing movement of highly educated, ex-urban, first-time farmers who are capitalizing on booming consumer demand for local and sustainable foods and who, experts say, could have a broad impact on the food system.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Fine. Their Leftist education, purchased for hundreds of thousands of dollars, left these miseducated people unable to find work in capitalist corporations. So they find honest achievement in raising veggies and bunnies. At least they aren’t dressing in their little black costumes and setting banks on fire in CA., so it’s all good.
They make it sound like millions are doing this...more likely, they found two distant relatives.
A farmer creates far more value than ANY social justice “worker”.
Good on them.
Maybe they should peace-corps farm in Venezuela to get the socialists through their ‘rough patch’.
LOL. Just more fake news.
Millions of liberals actually are.. like 60s communes but for ‘sustainable’ profit. PBS has scads of series on these people.
Good for her.
From the article:
"The number of young farmers entering the field is nowhere near enough to replace the number exiting, according to the USDA: Between 2007 and 2012, agriculture gained 2,384 farmers between ages 25 and 34 — and lost nearly 100,000 between 45 and 54."
So, yes: They are talking about a group of "youngish" people roughly equalling in size the student body of an average high school - in a nation of 330 million.
Big deal!
Regards,
For every spinster Maryland woman becoming a farmer, ten are moving to north Carolina
Craft beer industry.
Craft cider industry.
Bee-keeping.
Marijuana farming.
Straight-up organic fruits and vegetables.
There really are a lot of niches out there that people can fill. My daughter knows three people from HS who went on to get college degrees and are now basically farmhands. They seem pretty happy.
Unfortunately all of these new farmers have to climb their utility pole to get their high speed internet because it's not wired into the house.
Like the farmer who worked this land before her, she leases the house and the fields from a neighboring couple in their 70s.
Next week's article: the horror of modern day sharecropping under Donald Trump.
If you double 1 to 2 it can be described as ‘growing, doubling, etc.’
‘A growing number’ is right up there with ‘it’s unclear’ for Wash Post weasel words that allow them to substitute editorial comment or mere fantasy for reality.
They make it sound like millions are doing this...more likely, they found two distant relatives.
I’m all for it: idle hands really are the devil’s playground.
The Who - Now I’m a Farmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maT0wn6dQd0
>>But two years ago, the 32-year-old Whitehurst — who graduated from a liberal arts college and grew up in the Chicago suburbs — abandoned Washington for this three-acre farm in Upper Marlboro, Md.
I wish this was as widespread as the article tries to make it seem. Nothing teaches you the value of labor and the power of economics like growing and selling food. I wish all snowflakes would do this when they think that the “system” is keeping them and their expensive arts or studies degree down.
And the acres lost is 1000 times what was gained.
In my neck of the woods in Upstate NY, development has done away with most of the farms. But we got a great wino industry.
You cannot support yourself let alone a family on three acres.
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