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The article explores the potential retirement crisis facing many small farms in the U.S. as more and more farmers are growing old but lack successors. Topics covered include decision of the Hulls, a rural family in New York to sell Hull-O Farms, the farm founded some 240 years ago, average age of U.S. farmers, why many farm families can no longer rely on their children to take over the business and how niche food trends are contributing to an increase in number of young farmers in New York.

Reports on the Fresh Air Fund, a project to bring New York City children to the farm for a summer vacation. Travel to the countryside; Learning about farm products sold in the grocery; Request for rural families to open their homes and to host such children.

Focuses on the attitude of rural residents toward rural development in the United States. Implication of such attitude; Information on rural sprawl.