TOWN OF ROCHESTER — Before the snow had completely melted this spring, Eric Gratta was already on his rented acre in Kerhonkson, tilling the soil into the alternating rows, 30 inches wide and 90 feet long, that would hold his vegetable beds.
This was the 32-year-old’s first season running his own farm. Doing it alone was the only way for the numbers to make sense.
A front-end software engineer for more than a decade, Gratta was building a life far removed from the career he left behind in Brooklyn. He believed it was not a matter of whether artificial intelligence would replace him, but when…