Choosing to Farm: New Generation Stories

Austin Rose Regenerates a Beautiful Landscape

"New Mexico in general is very agricultural, especially where we are here in Northern New Mexico. And so mostly unless you're in the city, most communities are acequia-based irrigation. It's a beautiful thing that since

Capilla Ambar Connects Coffee, Butterflies and Worldwide Visitors

" I'm so grateful with people that really like our place. Because you can find a freedom here so nowadays that you are in not [doing] desk work or a job or something. That's harder sometimes. You need someplace to get aw

Nadia Milleron Does Not Conform

Nadia Milleron is an independent mother, farmer, attorney, and successful advocate who will fight for you. In 2019, Nadia’s daughter was a passenger on a Boeing 737 MAX that crashed in Ethiopia killing all on board. Afte

Gwyneth Harris and Neal McNaughten Chase New Grass

NewGrass Farmstead raises registered and commercial Clun Forest and Coopworth sheep, for breeding stock, meat, wool, and pasture improvement. We sell raw milk seasonally, and a variety of meats. Sheepskins, hand-dyed yar

Baylee Drown Finds What Makes Her Heart Sing

Baylee Rose Drown, is a queer woman farmer, educator and community builder. Baylee believes in good food for all people. For Baylee, this starts with caring for soil and extends into seeking justice in our land and food

Cal Hardage Has Lots of Irons in the Fire

My hope is that these journeys we share cause the person to take that next step. Whether that next step is buying a roll of poly braid and moving your cows twice if that's oh I need to try and do this for grass fed and g

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Kate Sabino Learns From Experience

It was in the middle of high school that I really started to carve out an interest for myself in and seek experiences in agricultural production of some fruit and veg, some small livestock. I remember having a conversati

Carrie & Brent Wasser Balance Relationships

I remember…doing some chores one day with the pigs and thinking, “I don't need anything other than this. Everything is whole and complete as I do this work here with these animals. –Carrie You start with lambing and move

Sarah & Kenny Jensen Stay Upright

We might not see the payoff of the things that we're doing here…but the legacy we're leaving for someone to walk in behind us, that's really important. —Sarah For me, especially having a job for so many years where there

Emily Virzi & Rose Thackeray Pivot From Italy to Vermont to Union Brook

“I think a lot of people seek out farm and food jobs because they're looking for something profound and they don't even know what it's going to be until they get there.”—Rose “Every year on the farm is so different. It r

Hannah & John Doyle Front Load Hardship

“Raising animals is heavy. Even when it goes really well, it's heavy. And when you have losses, like we have had in the last couple of years, it changes the math -- even the finances of it. Okay, yeah, we lost money beca

Robert Friedman Raises Poultry Intentionally

I came into farming really, as I got into it, being like--I'm a grower. That's where I want to grow my expertise; how to be a better caretaker for these animals, how to be more efficient with my time, with the land that

Justin Bramhall and Vanessa Rose Are Part of the Solution

The occasional summer I would go to Arkansas for a few nights when my family would make the trip out there from Dallas, Texas, they would only stay for a short period it was my aunt and uncle's Chicken farm. They were co

Bruce Hennessey and Beth Whiting Level Up Their Business

It feels good that we're providing this product for people's nutrition, for their families. They keep coming back to us and appreciating that. We are who we are; we're the face, we talk to them, we have them to our farm

Bruce Hennessey and Beth Whiting Climb Mountains and Diversify

I describe farming as really just one long extended expedition. It's very much like a mountaineering expedition where you wake up every day, you're working outside. You have problems, often new problems that crop up at l

Haley Goulet Educates Her Community

Watching them [kids] come to the farm; at first, it can be quite challenging. There is definitely an arc of sort of comfortableness just with being outside doing chores, hard manual labor. That takes a minute for a lot o

Toby & Melissa Malandrinos Pick Their Battles

I remember being seven or eight years old and drawing… having construction paper, big rolls of paper all over the living room floor, drawing pictures of where my cows and my sheep and my chickens would go on my future fa

Zan and Kimberly Walker-Goncalves Circle Back to their Roots

We had bought this house in Brattleboro. We'd bought the truck. We bought the sheep. We bought dogs. We did all of this long before COVID hit, but then we were like, okay, this is our pandemic project.—Kimberly Kimberly

Nicolle Ferrier Breeds Fowl for the Future

I've wanted to quit about a hundred gazillion times, a lot- a lot. But I want to do what I love. So that is the key, right? To do what we love. And this is what I love to do. It comes with difficulties and it comes with