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Harvest Public Media series
8:01 pm
Thu July 11, 2013

A civic lesson for rural towns

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson / Harvest Public Media
Jim Schulte and his wife, Rita, bought their 450-acre farm near Columbia, Mo., in 1991, but didn’t start farming full time until Jim finished working in the mortgage business.
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By Bill Wheelhouse

Hear the audio version of Abbie Fentress Swanson’s story

It’s not just lifelong farmers who feel the pull of the land as they get older. For some Americans, retirement is an opportunity to begin the farming dream.

“I wanted to be able to be active and have a pastime that ensured physical activity,” said beginning farmer Tom Thomas, who at 65 still has the physical fitness to wrestle and brand steers at his son’s ranch in Oklahoma. 

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