What I learned at Terra Madre

Farming, Spring ’07

I received a journalism fellowship in ’04 to traverse Europe’s farm markets, but I couldn’t break away til the autumn of ’06. I saw cows, goats and pigs in five countries and talked to farmers who let boar eat acorns in the forest. I learned about chestnuts in Italy. I produced little journalism from the trip, just a couple essays, one called What I learned at Terra Madre, the other Local and Sacred.