Farm life without modern tech looks beautiful and backbreaking

Grist
By Nathanael JohnsonNov 3, 2014, 2:35 pm30 pts
As I was writing up my interview with Ethiopian farmers Birtukan Dagnachew Tegegn and Dadi Buta Bedada, I found myself surfing Google Earth, looking for images that would give me a sense of what life was like in their part of the world. I was happy to find this video, from the Perennial Plate, which is full…

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