In New York, women and non-binary people leading the way in organic farming: Via TRF_Stories
AMAGANSETT, N.Y., July 26 - Sporting a backwards gray cap, studded earrings and a thin, head-to-toe layer of dirt, Layton Guenther took a break from the day's fieldwork to talk about their path from an upper-middle-class suburb to a Long Island, New York, farm.
In the same town, Amanda Merrow co-runs Amber Waves farm with Katie Baldwin, whom she met during an apprenticeship program. Merrow said she had, quite simply, enrolled in the apprenticeship"with the intention of doing something else after," but she fell in love with farming and couldn't imagine doing anything else.
There is no national data on the share of transgender farmers in the United States, but HB Lozito, executive director of Vermont-based Out in the Open, an organization that connects rural LGBTQ people, says it is growing. Layton Guenther, director of Quail Hill Farm, jump starts a pick-up truck in Amagansett, New York, U.S., July 20, 2019. Picture taken July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsay Morris
Many are working in New York state, where organic farming is growing twice as fast as the national average, the latest USDA agricultural census showed, thanks in part to strong regional demand for organic, locally-produced foods. "When I look now at the starting of the farm, it seems really audacious," Baldwin said."But in that environment, in 2008, everybody had lost their jobs and there weren't jobs - so it didn't feel that weird to start something."
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