Jezebel: Farmers

No Friend Of A Farmer

Anna Holmes — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[Qaryut, West Bank; October 27. Image via Getty]

Fountain Of Youth

Anna Holmes — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:15:00 EDT

[Paris, October 1. Image via Getty]

Were Dogs Originally Man's Best Meal? • Farmers In India Selling Wives To Pay Debts

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:40:00 EDT

• We're so used to thinking of dogs as companions that we often forget the most basic reason people buddy up to animals: Food. A new study suggests wolves were first domesticated in southeastern China for their meat. • More »

Friend Of A Farmer

Anna Holmes — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:10:00 EDT

[Sarajevo, August 26. Image via Getty]

Brussels Stouts

Anna Holmes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[Brussels, June 18. Image via Getty]

It's Not Easy Being Green

Anna Holmes — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[Berlin, May 25. Image via Getty]

Foodies? Foopies? Coopies?

Sadie Stein — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:40:00 EDT

In the organic farming world, Amy Hepworth is a rock star. According to New York magazine, apparently foodies at Brooklyn's uber-smug Park Slope Coop are so obsessed with the farmer — known for her apples — that they line up before dawn to meet her truck and go to meet-and-greets. Although her family has farmed upstate since 1818, Hepworth is a rarity in the male-dominated world of farming. Unlike many farmers,Hepworth didn't have a father to guide her. But she sees her father’s absence as freeing. “Traditionally, fathers indoctrinate their sons. I didn’t have to follow anybody," she says. This autonomy has allowed Hepworth to pursue often-controversial methods of sustainable farming. The results speak for themselves in her rabid following. She, of course, takes this with a grain of salt; writes Susan Burton: "Hepworth comes home most nights streaked with hydraulic oil or rotten squash and is frequently reminded by her mother to comb her hair. She finds it entertaining that her job has become glamorous." [New York] More »

Meet Barbara Shinn: vintner, restauranteur,...

Anna Holmes — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Meet Barbara Shinn: vintner, restauranteur, farmer. Shinn is one of six female farmers profiled in yesterday's NY Times magazine. Reports Melissa Breyer: "There are 80 percent more women who are farmers than there were 20 years ago in the United States, even as the number of farms has decreased, according to the Department of Agriculture. In the Northeast alone, nearly 20,000 farms are run by women." More on some of those women, as well as a series of portraits, can be found here. [NY Times] More »