Making the Transition Lifelong farmers Roy and Theresa Perish and their five children raise livestock on their 280-acre dairy farm in Long Prairie, Minnesota. However, it was not until a dry summer left their grass too short to make hay in 1988 that they transitioned to rotationally grazing their cattle. That summer, Roy decided to […]
Pastures A’ Plenty
In 1988 the VanDerPol family decided that they didn’t want to continue to farm in the way they had been. In retrospect, Jim VanDerPol feels that they made the right decision. “If we hadn’t changed our way of farming we likely would not be here now.” The VanDerPol’s raise 320 acres of diversified crops and […]
Polyface Farm
Diversified Everything Swope, Virginia On one 550-acre farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, there’s not much that isn’t diversified. The nationally-recognized Polyface Farm is owned by Joel and Teresa Salatin, Joel’s mother Lucille, and includes their children, Daniel and Rachel, and two apprentices who have woven an ecological approach to farming that is convincingly more profitable, […]
Morning Has Broken Farm
Harmony, Diversity, Respect Harmony, diversity, and respect for the whole of creation are the guiding principles of Morning Has Broken Farm located in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Owners, Carolyn and Larry Olson raise chickens, hogs, and cattle on pasture “with homegrown grains and loving respect.” Carolyn and Larry raise chickens in a new chicken-raising system publicized […]
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