Jamie DeMent
Class of 2001
Interview for the Spring 2011 issue of The Scholar, the Morehead-Cain alumni magazine. December 2011.
To me, it is a very conscious lifestyle choice. I could be making a lot more money. I could be living in a much bigger, nicer house.
But the world is not going to change, and we’re not going to get back to sustainable anything — sustainable jobs, sustainable food — until some people start making decisions to say, “I’m leaving the rat race and I’m going to go back and raise food.”
The Farm House, Coon Rock Farm Hillsborough, North Carolina

