Organic Lets Family Farms Prosper in Industrial-Agriculture Era
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To make a living as a U.S. farmer today, you pretty much have two choices. Raise a crop or livestock and contract with a corporation to buy it. Or start a small, artisanal operation that caters to the locavore crowd eager to pay top dollar for garlic scapes and kohlrabi.
Matt and Anne Burkholder chose a different route. Fifteen years ago, the Dartmouth College sweethearts traded New Hampshire’s White Mountains for Nebraska’s Great Plains to take over land in Cozad, population 4,000, that’s been in Matt’s family for three generations.