Farm Profile: Simple Gifts Farm
There was excitement in Jeremy Barker-Plotkin’s voice when I spoke with him last week. They had just been putting seeds in the ground that day at Simple Gifts, the farm in Amherst he co-owns with Dave Tepfer. Jeremy and Dave have been farming in Amherst together since 2006, but plans to farm together had been […]
Farm Profile: County Rail Farm
Some farm stories don’t offer an exact recipe for success, they just list the ingredients. Arguably most, says Tracy Potter-Fins of County Rail Farm in Dixon, MT. Tracy started County Rail with Margaret DeBona in 2011 shortly after relocating to Montana from New York, where they met. “Most (of the land access stories) around here […]
A Growing Trust
by Brooke Werley When I first heard of this project, I misheard Agrarian Trust, instead hearing A Growing Trust. I liked it. In the dreams of many young farmers is a growing sense of renewing a trust in the land that helped build the agricultural beginnings of this country. Now we stand on a precipice. […]