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Back to the land to make a buck

Updated: 2011-12-04 08:06

By Kevin Roose(The New York Times)

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Start-ups with a rural flair.

 Back to the land to make a buck

Customers pay Eddie Miller $1 per sheep per day for mowing their lawn. Right, Jason Stroud with his wife, Susan Gregory Thomas, in their Brooklyn chicken coop. Randy Harris for The New York Times; Below, Robert Wright for The New York Times

Back to the land to make a buck

Back to the land to make a buck

Back to the land to make a buck

Back to the land to make a buck

Back to the land to make a buck

The New York Times

(China Daily 12/04/2011 page9)