Over 25 yrs., ago when I was at graduate school where one of my friends was getting married to a farmer. She was quite defensive about her fiance's career choice. And stressed often that farming is running a business.

Looks like nowadays in some circles, she wouldn't have had to be so defensive.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Ent...509/story.html

An excerpt:
The farmers’ markets are introducing a new generation to farming and they’re interested in participating,” says Tabitha McLoughlin, manager of the Coquitlam farmers’ market, which has been operating since 1997. “This year, especially, it seems summer jobs on farms are seen as trendy or cool amongst the younger generation. I’ve been hearing that over and over. The next step has to be finding land but there are lots of barriers.”
But, she says, there are ways of going forward. Some have formed cooperatives where several farmers share one property. “New models of farming are starting to happen,” she says.