Sowing the Seeds of a New Generation of Farmers
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
Length: 04:00
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The average age of the American farmer is 57 years old. But there's a new breed of farmer out there, one who is young, focused on the small scale and often female.
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New Farmers
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[HOST INTRO] I’m Guy Hand and this is Edible Idaho, with another Year of Idaho Food story. (4:00 to soc out)
[SCRIPT]
O’Leary: Hi. I used to do slam poetry so . . .
Hand: On stage at the Basque Center in Boise, farmer Casey O’Leary prepares to sing out a self-penned, seed-centric poem..
O’Leary: So this is a poem about carving pumpkins. Slicing self-consciously, subconsciously stabbing the dense, orange sponge top of my Halloween prop, I’m pondering the wisdom in the combining of red wine and knife.
Hand: O’Leary is one of several participants in a recent Year of Idaho Food seed swap who are sharing not only heirloom seeds, but stories about those seeds. (O’Leary: But then, off comes the top.) The long, lanky O’leary flails her arms, arches her brow and buildings her poem to seeds into a nearly s...
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