Crop Mob was featured on NPR’s Marketplace last week. A favorite quote from the show was from first time crop mobber Jeffrey Bailey – Our generation, and the generation behind us have this blatant sense of entitlement. I think we’re realizing that everything has come a little too easy for us. So putting our hands [...]

Here’s an article from USA Today about young farmers in the sustainable ag movement.  Trace was interviewed and Crop Mob gets a mention.  It’s a feel good piece that only just barely touches on some of the major issues facing young farmers such as wages and access to land.  As long as sustainable ag is [...]

Doug has been farming organically for 38 years and does so now at Piedmont Biofarm - host of our first Crop Mob.   Doug, how did you start growing sustainably and why is it important to you? I was in my junior year of college in 1971 and I was hearing about a lot of people who were moving out [...]

The number of landless and itinerant young farmers, working alone or with a few other people, is a pretty large demographic in my world. What is sometimes missing is not only land ownership but the sense of community that can come from an agrarian culture. None of these farmers wants to farm alone, removed from [...]