It is just odd that it is newsworthy. Hippies have been abandoning
urban jobs to grow their own food and runs farms since the sixties.
The successful ones sell us vegetables the others fail. Indigenous
people have been growing their own food for millenia. When some
****** comes along and decides to slum it with dirt under his fingernails
it is somehow novel and exciting. "A hipster grew this heirloom
lettuce, therefore I'll pay $40 for a wedge of it with a drop of olive
oil at Chez Panisse!" The New York times finds it fascinating
when rich eastern kids abandon the trappings of their urban life
to do things other people do quietly all the time.