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This week on the Microcollege podcast we explore the deeply important and little discussed question of who the farmers of the future will be and how they will be educated. Our guest is Christine Deck, co-owner of the Deck Family Farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Together with her husband John and their 5 kids, Christine runs a diversified organic farm that is also a remarkable residential hands-on school for aspiring young farmers, which gives students a chance to try out entrepreneurial ideas and even pays them a meaningful stipend while they do it.
Christine Deck's journey as a farmer has been built out of determination, and a deep-rooted passion for sustainable farming. Raised in the farming heartland of California's San Joaquin Valley, Christine grew up in a farming family that stretched back through generations. Her paternal grandf ...
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