Prescott Frost raises organic, grass-fed cattle in Nebraska. (Photo courtesy of Prescott Frost)
I love benevolent crazy people, people who just do things because they have to. Sometimes they make sense (Dickson Despommier and
vertical farming). Sometimes they make no sense at all (making a farm and raising livestock in urban Oakland, which is what Novella Carpenter did—totally crazy, and she wrote a fabulous book about it called
Farm City). I know benevolent insanity the moment I hear it and I heard it the moment I heard Prescott Frost's voice:
“Every acre I can change from corn to grass, the better. It’s the only way we’re going to change this train wreck that we have now,” he told me by phone last week. He was calm and direct. “My mission is to change ...
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