CIVIL eats

follow the link to read an article i wrote for civil eats.  for those who don’t know, it’s a website which promotes “critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities.”

my article is an answer to the question:  why do i think so many young people such as myself are all of a sudden interested in farming.  it’s included in a civil eats series calledyoung farmers unite. 

here’s what i had to say:  civil eats

piglets join general population, humans make funny noises

another graduating class of piglets make their first little hoof prints on the rough streets of general population. as they leave the small piglet pen they have inhabited for the last month, they are leaving behind their entire world.  it’s all they know. 

knew. 

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cnn delves deeper into farm burger—and me

cnn just released a full story to accompany the tv clip they released earlier this week, and the article is featured on eatocracy.cnn right now. 

it includes a pretty thorough description of my apprenticeship, and the circumstances of our move from ny to ga, as well as all the details of the ins-n-outs involved between getting animals from the farm to the bun.

story, photos, and video here, on cnn