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Children’s author encourages more farm storytelling
The author of the American Farm Bureau Foundation’s Book of the Year says the next generation of farmers will be recruited through stories told by the current generation. Vermont farmer and writer Eugenie Doyle tells Brownfield she put in words what transitions mean to the farm and to farmers.
“It tells the story of a family, a small family farm, putting their farm to bed for the winter,” Doyle told Brownfield Ag News, interviewed during the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Phoenix.
Accepting the Book of the Year honor for Sleep Tight Farm, Doyle stressed the importance of farmers letting coming generations know what it’s like to be a producer of food.
“There are so many ways for us to keep the human side, not the marketing, not the commercial side of agriculture, but the human side that underlies that,” said Doyle. “That’s what’s going to bring new farmers into what I think of as a vocation, rather than just an industry.”
Everyone eats, said Doyle, but relatively few farm. She calls that a crazy gap in national knowledge.
She and her family operate The Last Resort Farm, where they grow organic berries, vegetables and hay.
Sleep Tight Farm is the American Farm Bureau Foundation’s tenth Book of the Year.
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