Posts by Wes Hannah
Wesley Hannah is an Organizer with the National Young Farmers Coalition and a farmer at Second Wind Farm, a 40 member organic CSA in Gardiner, NY. He may be reached at wes@youngfarmers.org
With nearly one-quarter of American farmers expected to retire in the next two decades – indeed, the average age of a farmer in the U.S. hovers around fifty-seven – the need for an effective plan to encourage beginning farmers has never been more pressing. As with any entrepreneurship, farming has a number of major barriers…
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