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an exploration youth's trend to pick up farming

Young professionals start farm in Sanger

Wed, 04/29/2009 - 01:43
In a world with constant economic crises, terrorists and pandemics seeming to loom around every corner, a new movement has started driving young professionals away from the city and to the country to start a farm. Kerry Herndon was a buyer for Tower records stores in the Seattle area. He moved with his wife to Sanger, TX to start a small farm on a 5 acre plot of land. ?I just wanted a change for something different?

College campuses get behind the ?Real food movement?

Thu, 04/23/2009 - 22:28
Colleges and schools across the nation have begun to recognize the trend among youth to get involved in organic farming. About 300 campuses are now part of the Real Food Challenge, which aims to get universities to increase their total food output from 2 percent real food to 20 percent by 2020. ?The real food challenge [...]