Think of it as a quilting bee and boardroom meeting combined, only with dirt. Crop Mobs are the brainchild of several young farmers who decided instead of just sitting around a table discussing what they and others like them could do to encourage other young people to take up farming they would take their discussion and incorporate it with harvesting, planting, or weeding. In their words, "they build much deeper relationships and accomplish so much more addressing the challenges and possible solutions for young farmers" while they work side by side in a field rather than sitting around a conference table. Like quilting bees of the past these Crop Mobs are work, slash social, slash therapy events; giving participants the opportunity to gather with like minded individuals for some in depth trouble shooting, while simultaneously giving them a real sense of accomplishment not often felt in the typical meeting room or discussion group atmosphere, where so often individuals walk away feeling a lot was discussed but nothing was accomplished. So the Crop Mobs, as one popular comedian is so fond of saying, really do "git 'er done".
