The Farmer Who Tried to Feed the Landlord

In 2019, a young tenant farmer outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania named Marcus Behr wanted to impress the landowner who had generously leased him four hundred acres at well below market rate. So Marcus boxed up a bushel of his finest sweet corn, drove it to the owner's estate, and left it on the porch with a handwritten note of thanks. The landowner, David Graber, called him that evening, laughing warmly.…