{"id":25294,"date":"2015-08-17T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=25294"},"modified":"2015-08-15T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:47:36","slug":"modern-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/modern-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Modern<\/a>You may notice a new magazine at the Fairmount branch. Modern Farmer<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>is a quarterly\u00a0hipster\/agriculture magazine\u00a0. It’s a fascinating combination of\u00a0actual horticultural information but with a\u00a0 small-is-better vibe. There is no pretense that they are the voice of big\u00a0ag. “We’re making fun of ourselves, in a way, because we don’t know anything about farming,” said former editor-in-chief Ann Marie Gardner.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0sophisticated design\u00a0aesthetic is \u00a0an interesting contrast to the stories about goats, cows and pigs.\u00a0 Recent stories feature news about a bird flu vaccine, as\u00a0well as\u00a0Brad Pitt. Some of the most inspiring articles are about young men and women trying and succeeding in diverse ventures – such as a husband-wife team of alpaca farmers in New York, a woman raising quail in California, and three young people growing papayas, coconut and other fruits and vegetables in Bali.<\/p>\n

The magazine, founded in 2013, is struggling. It actually suspended operations earlier this year, then promised a summer issue. We hope that they can overcome their financial difficulties. It fills a unique niche, with \u00a0a point-of-view not seen in mainstream magazine publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may notice a new magazine at the Fairmount branch. Modern Farmer is a quarterly\u00a0hipster\/agriculture magazine\u00a0. It’s a fascinating combination of\u00a0actual horticultural information but with a\u00a0 small-is-better vibe. There is no pretense that they are the voice of big\u00a0ag. “We’re making fun of ourselves, in a way, because we don’t[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1340,3258],"class_list":["post-25294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-farming","tag-magazines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6zY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions\/25414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}