What are the red dots?
Many young farmers are still landless nomads working for a few months or years either as apprentices, seasonal farm-workers, tenants or land stewards. Usually this ‘journeyman’ period provides the skillset and management experience that beginning farmers need to start their own operations. The nomad feature allows such farmers to map their movements around the country and watch an animation of their perambulations. Taken in sum, the combined animation of hundreds of apprentices will dance across the map like some kind of crazy homeless honeybee dance- a great kinetic diorama of the ‘farmers in waiting’ – critical reminder that land ownership must become accessible to new farmers. Your feedback is welcome! This site is still in development, and the survey is just the beginning of Serve Your Country Food. If you have some insight about how we might further enhance the site’s functionality, or want to collaborate in organizing young-farmer oriented programming at conferences or agricultur
