City dwellers embracing return to ag roots
By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee
The refrain about young people and agriculture used to be, “How ya gonna keep ’em down on the farm?”
City attractions were deemed too strong for the simple life to compete for the attention of young rural adults.
That longtime story is reversing.
Cities and suburbs now supply young recruits to agriculture, primarily to small and organic farms, and the trend is playing out in El Dorado County.