03 August 2010

Farm Surge

The Boston Globe has a great piece about locals (their locals, anyway) increasingly adopting this crazy lifestyle we've embraced:
After decades of decline, farming is resurging across the state. New farmers are graduates fresh out of college, immigrants with farming backgrounds, or former professionals starting second careers. Many begin as part-timers while hanging on to day jobs to supplement their incomes.


Those looking to make a new living from tilling the soil begin at training programs run by the state, universities, or nonprofit organizations — and the skills they learn have as much to do with running a business as with harvesting a crop.

Go read the whole thing.
 

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