Why Some Greeks are Returning to the Country and Heading to Farm School

The World

Greece is still in dire economic straits.

Unemployment is more than 20 percent.

Some Greeks are choosing to return to the land, and begin farming like their parents and grandparents before them.

Anchor Aaron Schachter learns more from Evangelos Vergos of the American Farm School in Thessaloniki.

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