Cyborg Farmer Blog

In the Alaskan wilderness, the Bradfords were virtually alone. “It was awesome,” says Kinsey Bradford. “We went for a year, and had we not had kids, I think we’d still be out there.”

Kayce Johnson began crafting her own skin care products at the age of fifteen. She has rather sensitive skin and, like many teenagers, it was freaking out. “My mother was a very good mother and did what everyone did, which was put their child on Proactive and try all of these harsh chemicals.”

Americans drink a lot of coffee from Central America, but in the unlikely mountains of Honduras, Myanmar, and Thailand, subsistence farmers are producing some of the best coffee around. And they see little (if any) return on their investment or labor.