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to rediscovering a perspective on the world that had somehow been lost to her for decades and to reconnecting with the natural world

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Bet the Farm author_Steven Johnson in raised bedsBeth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowaall for the dream of becoming a farmer, to put into practice everything she had learned over decades of reporting on food and agriculture. There was just one problem: money.