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.
Good for her.
For every spinster Maryland woman becoming a farmer, ten are moving to north Carolina
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.
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.
She graduated from a liberal arts college and is highly educated?
As ‘nice’ as it sounds, these former ‘social justice’ idiots are far too few. They only grow a small amount of niche food bought by relatively well-heeled and wealthy people in specialty stores.
What is needed are people to go into farming major crops on major acreage and more people into large scale commercial fishing.
Food does not grow in fancy boxes or pretty cans at the grocery store ...
These people are just more trust-funder babies assuaging their misplaced feeling and lack of a real education. They will not last long before retuning to the cities they came from, filled with self-pride (or is that hubris) at their magnificent ‘achievements’ for the people.
Imbo, like the Army, a year on a working ranch/farm does a body good.
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I’ve actually debated with FReepers who think you’ve got to buy soil to farm, so I don’t hold out much hope for social justice types formerly employed by non-profits. They’re going to carry their non-profit experience into the real world, where non-profit rapidly turns into a hole you pour your own money into, not someone else’s money.
So this moron LIB spent (her parents spent...) hundreds of thousands for a worthless degree? She find herself caught working in loser nonprofits for little cash. She somehow buys three acres and now is a farm worker producing arugula for the rich people going to restaurants in the WDC area. What a success.
They’ll be taking out loans for expensive farm equipment, have bad weather and the banks will own their farms. Being taught in liberal intuitions they will cry how unfair capitalism is.
According to Liz’s website, they rent the 4 acres. Read the application etc. I posted her Owl’s website.
LOL! “Highly educated liberal arts grads discover the degrees are worthless and decide to do an honest job - and the WaaaaaaPo acts as if there’s something wrong....
The rat race only gives you money not a life.
Yeah... Probably white guys trying to get the heck away from all the sexiest and raciest dimocraps...
Good!