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Many young Americans with no farming
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experience are entering agriculture.
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They are learning about agriculture in college.
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Emily Sloss is showing visitors around Duke University’s
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new campus farm in North Carolina.
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“We don’t use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.”
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Emily Sloss studied public policy at Duke.
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Now, she supervises the university’s new campus farm.
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“Now I’ m a farmer. Yeah. Believe it or not.”
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In its first year, the farm has provided more
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than two tons of fresh vegetables for student meals.
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Nate Peterson directs the dining halls at Duke.
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“It’s phenomenal. The produce that is coming out
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of the Duke Farm and coming into
our cafés ... is excellent quality.”
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Maureen Moody has studied what makes
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young people want to become farmers.
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Now, she herself is a farmer,
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at the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food
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and Agriculture near Washington, D.C.
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“A lot of people that are becoming farmers now are not
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the people you would traditionally think of as farmers.
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Me and a lot of people I know,
we didn’t grow up on farms.”
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“I’ve been eating this food all my life
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without having any idea where it comes from.”
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Movies like “Food Inc.” and books critical of American
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food production have led some young people to consider
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a career in agriculture. But Maureen Moody says many
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who become farmers have difficulty succeeding.
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“It’s really hard to stick with it after a few years.
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Some do, and I think, you know,
they figure out a way to make it work.
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But it’s really hard to make any money and to make a living.”