Hey guess what? We're in the newspaper! Owl's Nest is featured in a story about the growing number of young farmers in the U.S., as well as the challenges we're facing.

"For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Census of Agriculture. Sixty-nine percent of the surveyed young farmers had college degrees — significantly higher than the general population.

This new generation can’t hope to replace the numbers that farming is losing to age. But it is already contributing to the growth of the local-food movement and could help preserve the place of midsize farms in the rural landscape."

Read the full article here.