It hopes to make direct links between the city neighborhood and the realities of farming.
In 2007, Green Mountain began exploring the realities for farming families that earn the majority of their income by growing coffee, often on less than three acres of land.
Admittedly, this leads to other issues: managing customers' expectations about the harsh realities of farming – the variability of harvests and pricing, for example – is an ongoing challenge.
"This argument gains authority when it is rooted in the practical realities of farming" — rather than academic theorizing — "which it was in several of our entries, and these to me were the most compelling," he pointed out.
Those who are appalled by the very notion of farming pigs, who regard the realities of the industry described here as repellent, will make little distinction between methods.
Offered completely free to successful applicants aged 16+, it gives a dozen city-based young people identified as coming from backgrounds of social, economic or educational disadvantage the chance to live the reality of what farming life is all about.
They're too young to smoke cigarettes, and are still at that glorious age when they could go to summer camps, but thousands of kids across the U.S. are spending their time off farming tobacco -- a devastating reality that even "The Daily Show" struggled to make funny.
Paterson does not appear to understand the complex realities and challenges of farming in Africa.
Maybe it would mean a resurgent interest in the realities, challenges, and glories of farming.
Unfortunately, the reality — finding the right property, farming the land, making great wine, marketing it — can be a nightmare.
