Young Farmers to Rule the World: The Book

Have you quit your life to become a farmer yet? To milk cows and harvest herbs by day, drink beer and lean against a wooden fence by night? (The rest just falls into place, I believe.) If not (or if so), there’s now a new book by and about young farmers to accompany the Greenhorns movie and movement by and about young farmers. It’s 50 “funny, sad, serious, and light-hearted” essays that “touch on everything from financing and machinery to family, community building, and social change.”*

Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches From the New Farmers’ Movement costs $14.95 and is also very pretty to look at.

*Full disclosure: one of the book’s editors, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, is a friend of mine. Last year she hosted me at the very lovely farm she ran at the time, and I’ll never forget the omelette she made one morning from eggs we’d just collected, basil and tarragon we’d (“we’d”) just cut from the garden, and butter and crème fraîche she’d made from the cow’s milk she gathered daily. I’ll also never forget the spiders. Not in a million, trillion years.