You’ve been bombarded by all those year-end pleas for money from food and farming reform groups. They are promoting organic farming to fight health crises, supporting local food banks to provide equitable food access, and making farming more sustainable to protect the environment. Worthy though these goals are, none of them can be accomplished without one thing – more farmers feeding their local communities.
So instead of sending money to a non-profit, do something much more impactful – invest it in yourself by learning how to be a farmer. All it takes is a little know and a drastically different understanding of what it takes to farm in 2021.
What does this new kind of farming look like? Look out your window, then look here.