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PTR  ·  2835 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

    Honestly, non-snarkily, I really like the idea of living off the land

This was me. After years of visiting my uncle's pastorally picturesque blueberry farm, I thought I'd see what it was all about.

I worked 8am-7pm 6 days a week for four months on a certified organically grown farm in rural North Carolina. The work was hard and beautifully rewarding because of it. I learned more in those months about farming than I ever learned from tending a garden with my parents/grandparents growing up - and we had big gardens when I was young. The folks I lived with were self-sufficient, handy, knowledgeable, and intensely agrarian - i.e. dinner conversation revolved around the hidden superfood-nutritional benefits of sweet potato greens.

It's a nice and simple life. I hope you get the opportunity to live it.