In a highly explicable story developing out of Brooklyn, NY, 24-year-old Ronnie Dwyer has professed a desire to be a farmer, though what she actually wants is to go upstate for a few days to look outside at some grass and maybe a nice tree.
“I want to buy a plot of land in Wyoming and just tend to my farm,” says Dwyer, who has never been to Wyoming or to a farm. “I wasn’t meant to live life in the rat race.”
When pushed on what kind of farming she would like do, Dwyer did not have firm answers.
“Just regular, like cows, chickens, some fruits and vegetables maybe,” says the young woman who more so wants to go outside than develop a career in agriculture. “Have you seen Days of Heaven?”
Dwyer did not elaborate, but her reference to the cinematographically gorgeous film set in the 1890’s Texan panhandle suggests that the root of her desire is to maybe stand in a field for an hour or so.
Though she insists that running a fully operational farm is the only answer to her troubles, some of Dwyer’s friends are unconvinced by the promise of this career pivot.
“Farming is, like, notoriously one of the hardest jobs,” says Dwyer’s best friend, Maria Elena Hernandez. “And once Ronnie and I had to wake up at 5 a.m. to catch a flight, and she literally cried just from having to be awake at that hour. I think she just needs to get out of the city, on an ideally not-too-early train.”
But Dwyer’s undeterred by this skepticism.
“I’m not ignorant; I know farming is serious work,” says Dwyer, who doesn’t know that, but does know it’s what she’s supposed to say. “There are tons of issues with government subsidies and who gets them and who doesn’t, and, like, corn is a whole thing.”
“The state of the American farmer is in crisis, and that’s actually part of why I want to do this,” Dwyer adds, really reaching at this point. “But mostly I just want to be self-sufficient, live off the land, and maybe have a little farmstead where I sell my fresh eggs and maybe honey, too. Aww!”
Well none of that is ever going to happen, Ronnie, but we hope you can take a hike or something soon!
