MPW.73 / 2021 The Farmer Next Door by Paige Southwood
Photographer
Paige Southwood Bozeman, Mont.

Team Cox

Story Summary

Young, educated people across the U.S. are finding themselves unimpressed with Zoom screens and office work, and are choosing to replace their desks with tractors on organic farms like Rocky Creek Farm in Bozeman, Montana. The privileged few live off meager wages and live in vans and RVs while migrating with the seasons and harvests across the country. This type of manual labor, typically sought after by foreign migrant workers, finds a unique home among these environmentally-conscious youth in the West.