Cappers Farmer

Cappers Farmer. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Line On Agriculture.

More and more people are going back to doing things for themselves. Hank Will, Editor In Chief of Grit magazine talks about a new publication all about getting back to some old-fashioned ways. It’s called Cappers Farmer.

WILL: It’s an old brand that sort of piggy backs on the original sort of Cappers brand which we still publish. And so we revitalized this thing we call Cappers Farmer and it used to be filled with a lot of homemade, homegrown, you know it was nothing like some of the modern farm magazines.

The new publication will be produced as a quarterly special issue.

WILL: And so we’ve tried to revitalize that based on the interest that a lot of our constituents have on being more self-sufficient around their place not just with gardening and maybe raising some food and so this particular piece we started it as a special issue and it’s just been so well received. Lots of recipe’s. There’s lots of cooking of course from scratch.

Will says they discuss cooking on campfires and wood stoves as well as making fiber arts and more. But why the huge interest in these archaic ways of doing things.

WILL: It’s a little bit of economic uncertainty. A little bit of distrust in government perhaps. Folks feeling that maybe they’ve lost a lot of control over their lives and so I think it’s sort of comforting paradigm basically to sort of rekindle some of the old skills of doing things for yourself perhaps from scratch or almost scratch.

More tomorrow with Hank Will on the new Cappers Farmer publication.

That’s today’s Line On Agriculture. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.