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"In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
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By ISOLDE RAFTERY
Published: March 5, 2011

CORVALLIS, Ore. ‹ For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here,
avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with
industrial farming.

A New Generation of Farmers



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After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the
former federal secretary of agriculture who was known for saying, ³Get
big or get out.²

But several weeks before his grandfather died, Mr. Jones broached the
subject. His grandfather surprised him. ³You have to fix what Earl and I
messed up,² Mr. Jones said his grandfather told him.

Now, Mr. Jones, 30, and his wife, Alicia, 27, are among an emerging
group of people in their 20s and 30s who have chosen farming as a
career. Many shun industrial, mechanized farming and list punk rock,
Karl Marx and the food journalist Michael Pollan as their influences.
The Joneses say they and their peers are succeeding because of Oregon¹s
farmer-foodie culture, which demands grass-fed and pasture-raised meats.

³People want to connect more than they can at their grocery store,² Ms.
Jones said. ³We had a couple who came down from Portland and asked if
they could collect their own eggs. We said, ŒO.K., sure.¹ They want to
trust their producer, because there¹s so little trust in food these
days.² "

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³Every conflict in the world today has its origin in the
imagination of British map drawers,² Author Unknown

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Good article Bill, thanks. It seems that there is hope for a clean
environment, real food, and real jobs, when the monocrop wheat, corn,
and soy fields are replaced by chestnut trees, and farmers return to
traditional pragmatic methods for market and truck farming.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06farmers.html?hp

"In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges
Leah Nash for The New York Times

Tyler and Alicia Jones on their farm in Corvallis, Ore. More Photos »
By ISOLDE RAFTERY
Published: March 5, 2011

CORVALLIS, Ore. ‹ For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here,
avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with
industrial farming.

Now, Mr. Jones, 30, and his wife, Alicia, 27, are among an emerging
group of people in their 20s and 30s who have chosen farming as a
career. Many shun industrial, mechanized farming and list punk rock,
Karl Marx and the food journalist Michael Pollan as their influences.
The Joneses say they and their peers are succeeding because of Oregon¹s
farmer-foodie culture, which demands grass-fed and pasture-raised meats.

³People want to connect more than they can at their grocery store,² Ms.
Jones said. ³We had a couple who came down from Portland and asked if
they could collect their own eggs. We said, ŒO.K., sure.¹ They want to
trust their producer, because there¹s so little trust in food these
days.² "

In Eugene, Ore., Kasey White and Jeff Broadie of Lonesome Whistle Farm
are finishing their third season of cultivating heirloom beans with
names like Calypso, Jacob¹s Cattle and Dutch Ballet.
They have been lauded ‹ and even consulted ‹ by older farmers nearby for
figuring out how to grow beans in a valley dominated by grass seed
farmers.

And it seemed that other beginning farmers in Oregon shared their
values. At the Grange hall later that evening, the gravel lot was lined
with Subarus with bumper stickers that read ³Buy locally,² ³Who¹s Your
Farmer?² and ³Let¹s Get Dirty.² One farmer arrived by bicycle.

The Grange master, Hank Keogh, is a 26-year-old who, with his multiple
piercings and severe sideburns, looks more indie rock star than seed
farmer. Mr. Keogh took over the Grange two years ago.
He increased membership by signing up dozens of young farmers and others
in the region. He had the floorboards refinished, introduced weekly yoga
classes and reduced the average age of Grange members to 35 from 65.

³Literally, four years ago, this was not happening,² Ms. Jones said,
gesturing to the 30 farmers who congregated at the hall. ³Now,
everywhere you turn, someone¹s a farmer.²
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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