Gregory Voyevoda, 65, a veteran neurosurgeon, had resorted to farming wheat to supplement his meagre salary despite his high level of education.
Mr Beinhocker envisages a Borgesian library of every conceivable plan, from farming wheat in Lebanon in 8500BC to manufacturing "supernano neural-blastule tubes" that have yet to be invented.
Villagers in Jabori live by farming wheat and maize, as well as harvesting mulberry and pine trees to make furniture.
Her father, who farmed wheat, died two years later.
Her husband, Kevin, farms wheat on 8,000 acres.
Well, she says, her family farm wheat and maize, and are relatively wealthy for this area, so yes.
They farmed wheat and corn on three-quarters of an acre of land, and their annual income was less than six hundred dollars.
Frank Polifka, who farms wheat and milo, invented a contraption called the Windhexe, which creates a tornado-force wind within a steel funnel.
On the few thousand acres where his family farms wheat, sugar beets, soybeans and corn, he drives a combine, a tractor, a plow and a mower.
A second Afrin exile, Salah Mohammed, 40, said: "Lands are being confiscated, farms, wheat, furniture, nothing is ours anymore; it's us versus their guns.
The pregnancy had been anxious because the couple had lost even more than their old life in Syria, where Mr. Ahmed used to farm wheat, cotton and cumin.
