Kasey White drives her 1950s tractor on her farm. The couple has been lauded — and even consulted — by older farmers nearby for figuring out how to grow beans in a valley dominated by grass seed farmers.<p>The couple have bought much of their farming equipment off the antique section of Craigslist, because most farm equipment has been made for industrial-scale farms over the last four decades.
Leah Nash for The New York Times
(via A New Generation of Farmers - Slide Show - NYTimes.com)
A new generation of farmers are going back to the land as post WWII version of the American dream has come crashing down. While they may be buying antique tractors, they are also logging into the growing infrastructure offered by food tech — a new marketplace of social tools running parallel to the food chain, offering transparency and access at every step from the ground to your mouth. And possibly a local, distributed, and public alternative to global, centralized and private production and distribution system of big agribusiness.
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