Morning Owl Farm is named after an owl…duh…who lives on the farm and gets up early. The owner of the farm is Mary Rolfing, who raises ducks and duck eggs. She’s an ex-BSU Professor who decided she preferred agiriculture and she has a very encouraging message…about the future of farming. “There’s a lot more younger families getting into farming for the first time or the first time in many generations within their family, so I think farming in the past used to be handed down from generation to generation, and I think for a while what we ended up seeing was the successful farmer was a farmer who did not produce another farmer in the lineage, so we’ve got a lot of new farmers now in the 21^st century who’s parents were teachers, or business people or plumbers or what have you but they didn’t farm. They’ve had to learn from mentors instead of Mom and Dad and Grandpa.”

 We’ve worried about farmers in America who seem to be getting older with nobody to replace them. But Mary just told us that’s changing with the 21^st century. Why? Twittering, blogging, social networking.