August 1st, 2008
The Greenhorns: Young Urbanites Turn to Organic Farming
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Turning our backs on buying things is not the only reaction to the excesses of our hyper-consumerist culture. Some urban youngsters in the US are turning to organic farming (New York Times) –
Steeped in years of talk around college campuses and in stylish urban enclaves about the evils of factory farms, the perils of relying on petroleum to deliver food over long distances and the beauty of greenmarkets, some young urbanites are starting to put their muscles where their pro-environment, antiglobalization mouths are. They are creating small-scale farms near urban areas hungry for quality produce and willing to pay a premium.
Severine von Tscharner Fleming, director of ‘The Greenhorns’, a film about young farmers, says that young farmers are an emergent social movement –
We want to reclaim place. We want to steward. We want to feed, and we want to access the generosity of photosynthesis directly—with our hands touching the soil.
Everyone finds a different way into farming. Some start as romantics, some as ecologists, some as tree-sitters, and some as gourmands. Some are lucky enough to be born into farming.
