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In 1986, Becky Doyle was helping her husband run the family’s hog farming operation. She also had a sidelight business of marketing gift baskets made from…
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Paul Horel says his childhood was pretty typical for a kid growing up in the Midwest in the 1950s: he did chores in the morning and evening, spent long…
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Kelly Hagler, 25, is among the millions of young people who have left rural communities for the bright lights of the city, in this case Chicago. But…
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Trent Johnson didn’t grow up on a farm, but he was always enamored with the cowboy lifestyle.He sure looks the part now. I visited him in his custom…
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Jackie Dougan Jackson keeps a pretty thorough log of her life.The 85-year-old retired college professor lives in Springfield, Ill., and has lived there…
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Johnson’s farm roots are in Moundville, Mo., a 124-person town near the Missouri-Kansas border.Monica Johnson, 36, watered edible yellow kale flowers on a…
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Mark Kenney and his family lived through the farm crisis of the 1980s, when the bottom dropped out of the U.S. economy and collapsing global food markets…