Blending produce, pasture and helping horses Barre, Massachussetts “We pride ourselves at living and doing things outside of the box,” explains David Petrovick of Caledonia Farm, outside Barre, Massachusetts. For David, this means blending historic farming traditions such as draft horses with hot agriculture marketing trends like the growth of grassfed meats, always keeping an […]
Bossie’s Best
Home, Kansas Organic farming is a way of life that dates back 150 years in Nancy Vogelsberg-Busch’s family. Her great-grandfather homesteaded on the north central farm where Nancy was born. When Nancy’s father inherited the farm from her grandfather in the 1950s, it was on the condition of a promise never to use chemicals on […]
Pilgrim’s Way Farm
A Family Affair Scott and Anna Froemming of Pilgrim’s Way Farm live with their seven children, Ryan, Lydia, Joey, Mitchell, Ruth, Faith and Elsie, on a 160-acre farm in Browerville, Minnesota. Tired of the corporate scene in Iowa where Scott was a CPA, Froemmings decided to return to their native state, after being away for […]
Perish Farm
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 […]