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FarmPlate Book Review | "Greenhorns: The Next Generation of American Farmers"
Anna Villarruel May 15, 2012 Anna Villarruel 0 comments
**For a chance to win a copy of Greenhorns, just log on to FarmPlate and review your favorite food businesses! We'll enter your name in our drawing once for every review you write. More reviews equals more chances to win!**  I love farming, but from a distance. It requires bending, squatting, twisting, pulling, pushing, cutting, dragging, digging and reaching. It can sometimes include aches, pains, cuts, cracks, blisters, infections, stings and sprains. Knowing all the physical demands of farming—or at least having heard of them—I’m somehow still drawn to it. Especially when books like Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement hit the shelves and make the lifestyle...
Meet Anna Villaruel, FarmPlate's Food Writing Intern!
Anna Villarruel Apr 19, 2012 Anna Villarruel 0 comments
Hello! My name is Anna Villarruel and I will be interning at Farmplate for the next few months. I’m a senior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, but originally hail from Santa Barbara, California. My love affair with food started when I was suddenly separated from my mother’s cooking the summer before freshmen year of college. Suddenly, avocados, mangos, and oranges weren’t in season year-round and sunlight was completely out of the question for six or seven months. As I became more acquainted with the Northeast, words like “local food,” “sustainable agriculture,” and “CSA’s” quickly became a part of my vocabulary. My constant trips back and forth across the country have...