Farm Profile: Little Bridge Farm
Little Bridge Farm Summary: Jonathan Ault is a 27-year-old new farmer in Dresden, Maine. He and his partner, Kate Harris, will be breaking ground spring 2013 for their first season as Little Bridge Farm. They are a lucky breed of new farmers leasing land from an established farm. In doing such, they are benefiting from […]
Farm Profile: Sprout Urban Farms
Sprout Urban Farms Summary: Sprout Urban Farms is a community organizing non-profit focused on food accessibility in Battle Creek, Michigan. Sprout Urban Farms operates a 2-acre urban farm that works with local youth, fosters a network of 35 community gardens, and runs a mobile market to underserved neighborhoods. Their work promotes greater food accessibility and […]
Farm Profile: Markegard Family Grass-Fed
Markegard Family Grass-Fed Summary: Markegard Family Grass-Fed is family owned and operated by Erik and Doniga Markegard. Located in California’s San Mateo and Sonoma Counties, Markegard Family Grass-Fed provides pastured, locally born, raised, and processed meat and eggs. They primarily raise grass-fed beef with small grass-fed lamb and pastured pork operations in addition to a […]
Farm Profile: Quincy Farm
Quincy Farm Summary: Quincy Farm, run by Luke Deikis and Cara Fraver, is a vegetable farm on the Hudson River in Easton, New York. The farm is approximately 40 acres of rich bottomland soils. Cara and Luke are proud to be only the second family stewarding this land since 1774. Using organic practices, Quincy Farm […]
Farm Profile: Wild Shepherd Farm
Wild Shepherd Farm Summary: Wild Shepherd Farm is a grass based diversified farm in Athens, Vermont run by David Hassan and Emily Amanna. David and Emily are young famers epitomizing the newest generation of the family farm. Wild Shepherd Farm specializes in growing over 30,000 heads of seven varieties of organic (non-certified) hardneck garlic. They […]
Farm Profile: Book & Plow Farm
The farm-to-school initiative has grown popular in recent years, but seldom does the name fit so well as in the case of Book & Plow Farm in Amherst, MA. Here the farm has quite literally been brought to the school. Although farming land owned by educational institutions is not a particularly new idea, (nearby University […]
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. […]