{"id":28262,"date":"2017-11-24T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28262"},"modified":"2017-11-24T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:38:16","slug":"a-growing-number-of-young-americans-are-leaving-desk-jobs-to-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28262","title":{"rendered":"A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    a close up of a rock in the middle of a grass covered field: Rachel Clement picks purple mustard before the first hard freeze of the season at Owl\u2019s Nest Farm in Upper Marlboro, Md., on Nov. 9. Many women, highly educated and city-bred, are taking to the farm life. Clement has worked at the farm since August.<\/div>\n
    \u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Michael Robinson Chavez\/Washington D.C.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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    Rachel Clement picks purple mustard before the first hard freeze of the season at Owl\u2019s Nest Farm in Upper Marlboro, Md., on Nov. 9. Many women, highly educated and city-bred, are taking to the farm life. Clement has worked at the farm since August.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Liz Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.<\/p>\n

    The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs. So were the benefits. But two years ago, the 32-year-old Whitehurst \u2014 who graduated from a liberal arts college and grew up in the Chicago suburbs \u2014 abandoned Washington for this three-acre farm in Upper Marlboro, Md.<\/p>\n

    She joined a growing movement of highly educated, ex-urban, first-time farmers who are capitalizing on booming consumer demand for local and sustainable foods and who, experts say, could have a broad impact on the food system.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Census of Agriculture. Sixty-nine percent of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees \u2014 significantly higher than the general population.<\/p>\n

    This new generation can’t hope to replace the numbers that farming is losing to age. But it is already contributing to the growth of the local-food movement and could help preserve the place of midsize farms in the rural landscape.<\/p>\n

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    A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm a close up of a rock in the middle of a grass covered field: Rachel Clement picks purple mustard before the first hard freeze of the season at Owl\u2019s Nest Farm in Upper Marlboro, Md., on Nov. 9. Many women, highly educated and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17158,299,1912,17159,827,5228],"class_list":["post-28262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-caitlin-dewey","tag-farming","tag-food-production","tag-msn","tag-united-states","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28263,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262\/revisions\/28263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}