In 'This Blessed Earth,' The Outdated Romance Of The Family Farm
Journalist Ted Genoways spent a year on a small farm in rural Nebraska, and he says American nostalgia for the family farm overlooks the pressures farmers face and the realities of food production.
Lincoln is just 40 miles into Nebraska and yet there's almost no one between that city and the state's far western border.
That's how journalist and author Ted Genoways sees it. He spent a year studying a family farm in sparsely-populated York County, an hour outside Lincoln, and writes about it in his new book, This Blessed Earth.
"Nebraska is a land of ghosts of small towns dwindling to the
