date:Jun 23, 2014
As a teenager, Danelle Myer wanted nothing more than to leave her family's farm in Iowa and become a big-city advertising executive. Now, the 42-year-old juggles orders for cabbage and deals with hail damage on her patch of land.
After building a career in public relations, Myer returned three years ago to her rural roots in the US farm belt - the tiny Iowan town of Logan, less than 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of Omaha, Nebraska.
In my 20s, my health was not the greatest. I started realis