Astronaut, firefighter … farmer?

Out on Interstate 70, a weathered wooden billboard proudly announces that “One Kansas farmer feeds 129 people, plus you!” Ever thought about becoming that One Kansas farmer?

No? Well, then you’re not one of the cool kids. According to The Huffington Post, “farming has totally blown up” thanks to a call to return to working the land and college graduates increasingly opting to spend a post-graduate year on a farm. In attempting to discover whether this is an economy-driven trend or just a fad for those wealthy enough to indulge an agrarian lifestyle, the article argues we are actually experiencing a paradigm shift:

Perhaps we’re looking at a new world of homesteading, manual labor, and life on the land. A life of farming, in other words.