Leaving the City for the Farm Is a Hard Row to Hoe. But They Did It.
We spoke with several Sullivan County farmers about the urban lives they left behind, and what it means to tend the land in the 21st century.
By Lana Bortolot
NYT
Aug 2, 2025
Excerpt:
When Brenda González and Chris Nickell moved from New York City to the Hudson Valley to start a farm in Beacon, N.Y., the idea was to create food access for underserved communities.
The couple, high-school sweethearts in Pittsburgh who married 13 years ago, moved to Upper Manhattan in 2013 when Mx. Nickell was accepted to New York University’s doctoral program in ethnomusicology. Ms. González, an educator, later helped found Comp Sci High, a charter school in the Bronx, and Mx. Nickell worked as deputy chief of staff for state Sen. Robert Jackson.
Living and working in neighborhoods with high rates of infection during the pandemic affected them deeply. “We came out of lockdown incredibly burned out and traumatized,” Ms. González, 37, said. At that point, it was time to stop talking about their pipe dream of farming and make a plan.
They created Finca Seremos on paper in 2022 and began planning the operation: how and where to access land, on-site infrastructure and the crops that would support a culturally sensitive CSA and other distribution. In the meantime, Mx. Nickell, 35, spent two years working on two farms within cycling distance of Manhattan.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/leaving-the-city-for-the-farm-is-a-hard-row-to-hoe-but-they-did-it/
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