Small Farm Nation: Farming | Marketing | Homesteading

So, what happens when a Harvard educated lawyer trades in the bright lights of the city for rural farm life? Well, when he stops bringing home the bacon he learns to actually make award-winning bacon and sausage. That's what! Listen to the Podcast SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST IN ITUNES Welcome to Episode 12!  This week you’ll hear the real-life Green Acres story of how a lawyer learned what it really means to bring home the bacon. In the 1960’s fictional television series, Green Acres, Eddie Albert played the character Oliver Douglas. Oliver was a Harvard-educated lawyer who traded city life for a farm in Hooterville, deep in rural America. Likewise, James Faison is a Harvard-educated lawyer who, after the death of his grandparents, traded in fancy dinners and big paychecks to restore his grandfather's farm to health. But after taking a few farming classes, James the lawyer quickly learned, as he says, that he "couldn't grow a blade of grass!" Undeterred, James found a better way to make an impact in the local fa