The Beginning Farmer: Connection As Urban Advantage | MOTHER EARTH NEWS

Reader Contribution by Jennifer Nyberg
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Yep, I know they’ve been talked about in Mother Earth News magazine.Some love ’em, others hate ’em.I am one of the former.I love the simplicity, the endless possibilities, the light-weight functionality — and, no,I’m not talking about the hand rake.

Far from being a distraction in that first formative year of Horse Drawn Farms, my Blackberry was an indispensable tool.And that’s really saying something for someone who is the opposite of a techno-nut.Someone who is as slow as molasses to adopt new technology; who would rather, as the name of the farm suggests, stick to Things Old.The 100 year old butter-churner, the foot pedal spinning wheel, the hand-cranked honey extractor — all will vouch for me. As will my husband, who does not sympathize with my glaring unhappiness when he revs up that shrieking chain saw of his.

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