By Laura Rutherford
My name is Laura Rutherford. I live and farm with my husband near Grafton, North Dakota. We raise sugarbeets, dry beans and potatoes, as well as three young sons. In addition to being a wife and mother, I’m also a millennial.
From caring about the environment to connecting with the food we eat, millennials and farmers are more similar than you might think.
“Millennial,” a term coined by researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss in their book “Millennials Rising,” generally refers to the generation of people born between the early 1980s and 1990s.
Millennials deserve a huge shout-out for their intense interest in food. People of all generations, but particularly millennials, are passionate about food. For this generation, food is self-expression and creativity, as well as sustenance.
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