What about the "urban farming" explosion in Detroit?-----Latest Millennial Dream Job? Farming | Intellectual Takeout

Latest Millennial Dream Job? Farming | Intellectual Takeout

"On Thanksgiving Day, while America ate its biggest, most famous meal of the year, The Washington Post wrote about something for which everyone ought to be thankful: more millennials are taking up farming.

That’s right: 

For the first time in a long time, a growing number of young Americans are ditching cities and desk jobs to sow seeds and pull weeds. 

...Surprising most of all because most of these millennial farmers have college degrees and no agricultural background or experience. 

...So why the sudden uptick in college-educated, twenty-something, farming newbies entering the field?

No doubt part of it is the desire to see and be surrounded by life and living things, and to feel alive themselves...Read all.