Young Farmers Are Inspiring, But Are They Making a Living?

‘Basically, it starts to feel like I’m being financially irresponsible if I keep farming’

Lisa Held
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10 min readOct 4, 2019

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Photo from National Young Farmers Coalition

After various stints working on urban farms, Shayna Lewis, 38, left Brooklyn to start Dirty Boots Farm with her partner, Matt Hunger, five years ago. With the help of a farmland conservation organization, she was able…

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