Steed for the tillerman: New Jersey farmer Tom Paduano at work(Photos by Jared Flesher) For the past year, I've been following around farmers in New Jersey with a video camera. For the most part, they are young, broke, landless, and optimistic. "I've hit the jackpot. I'm getting rich. I'm farming," deadpanned Aubrey Yarbrough, age 28, on a recent morning devoted to planting potatoes. She was only half kidding. As an intern on an organic vegetable farm near Princeton, she's now bringing in nearly $1,000 per month, double what she made at her farming internship last year. The protagonists of my …
