Chelsea Chandler, 31, and Scott Laeser, 35, are finishing up their fifth season at Plowshares & Prairie Farm near Argyle, Wisc. They met and fell in love just as Chelsea was finishing up grad school at Yale University in environmental policy. Scott had gone to Yale years before in the same program, and was already […]
Vitruvian Farms: Vibrant Community, Beauty, and Restaurant Partnership...
Farmers Tommy Stauffer and Shawn Kuhn, both 28, started their successful microgreens and produce farm while both still students at UW Madison. Neither majored in anything having to do with farming. They had no growing experience, no idea what they were doing, just the desire to live a passionate, fulfilled life doing meaningful work. “We […]
Nourishing Friends and Family at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm
Lauren and Kyle Rudersdorf are in their fifth season of farming (they married in season two!) at Raleigh’s Hillside Farm between Evansville and Broadhead, Wisc. They lease 4 acres on the farm where Lauren grew up. The two graduated from UW Madison during the recession. The scarcity of jobs and the attractiveness of farming inspired […]
Bethanee Wright: Manifesting Her Farming Dream at Winterfell Acres
Bethanee Wright, 26, grew up in Milwaukee. Her parents owned a hardware store. “I could sell a hammer, but I didn’t learn anything particularly helpful for farming,” she recalls. While an undergrad at UW Madison, she started interning at FairShare CSA Coalition, where she caught the farming bug. Dennis Fiser, a FairShare staffer at the […]
Tim Zander: Raising Organic Grain and Produce at Emerald Meadows
Meet Tim Zander of Emerald Meadows organic farm near Columbus, WI. Tim fell in love with farming as a young teen from the suburbs helping out at his uncle’s farm. He worked there through college and then bought his own land and started his own organic farm in the ’90s. Today, he grows about 150 […]
Kate and Tyler Rowe: Burr Oak Gardens, an (Extended) Family Farm
Kate and Tyler Rowe are farming on the same farm that Tyler grew up on. They call it Burr Oak Gardens after the heritage burr oak tree behind their house. They’re certified organic, growing for a CSA, u-pick strawberries, an on-farm market stand, and a retail greenhouse on farm. They also sell at the Rio […]