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Young farmers: Anybody want to be a serf?

By Erik Curren | October 3, 2011

Young Farmers

“I don’t know a single person under 30 who doesn’t want to own a farm,” wrote Fran Korten in an issue of YES! Magazine devoted to jobs and alternative careers. "A growing segment of people don’t want to just buy organic, healthy food. They want to grow it. This new lust to farm seems to cross class, race, and politics." This farm-lust probably doesn't feature the ambition to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: farming, feudalism, John Michael Greer, Monticello, serfdom, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Thomas Jefferson, young farmers

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