While I was interviewing Jen Roberts in her Bridport home, she said something that made me want to pause my digital voice recorder.
“I was always more interested in where I wanted to be than what I wanted to do,” she said.
I was interviewing Jen and her husband Judd about their decision to raise their two daughters, Mirabelle and Adalaide, in Addison County.
A year ago, The New York Times reported on the growing number of idealistic college students who spend summers working on organic farms.
The article described a few different members of my generation. An English major from Kenyon College declared that, after his summer farming, he was finally comfortable with not having been born in the ’60s.