Escape From The Urban Jungle: My Month On A Farm

I spent four weeks last summer volunteering on a Vermont farm as part of an eccentrically acronymed program known as WWOOF, or World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. In most cases, volunteers work without pay, but live and eat for free.

However hackneyed, going to work on a farm was my attempt at escaping a culture that has a Starbucks on every corner. I was tired of rushing through my day without ever really looking around — unless it was at my phone.

But as for escaping the loud hum and rush of a big city — I found that I immersed myself in a different sort of daily grind altogether, albeit a greener and wilder one. And as it turns out, there is no such thing as an escape from Starbucks.