Meet the Modern Farmer: Meredith Bell
This former catering exec’s transition to farming offered up an unusual number of twists, including life-threatening illness and natural disasters.
Meet the Modern Farmer: Jill Volat
Jill Volat had a rough 2015. Newly divorced and living in a small apartment without a patch of ground to call her own, the Los Angeles landscape designer says she felt "like a cobb...
Meet the Modern Farmers: Helena and Matthew Sylvester
The Sylvesters grew an astonishing 80 different vegetable varieties on a single acre during their first year of farming.
Meet the Modern Farmer: Chris Newman
“There’s a completeness about it that was missing with my 9-to-5 job, where I was making a living, but not necessarily a life.”
Meet the Modern Farmers: Gary and Matthew Moretti
Matthew Moretti started Bangs Island Mussels with his father, Gary, after earning a master’s in marine biology.
Meet the Modern Farmer: Wendy Johnson
This former fashion blogger relocated from Los Angeles to Iowa to raise organic soy, corn, alfalfa, oats, barley, and grass-fed livestock.
Meet the Modern Farmer: Camilla Goddard
Hopping from rooftop to rooftop. Staging dramatic rescues. Wearing a goofy costume. It’s all in a day’s work for eco-superhero Camilla Goddard, London’s busiest beekeeper.
“I always tell people, when you plant a seed, you’re growing a story,” says Ken Greene, who began circulating seeds like books while working at the Gardiner, New York, public library more than a decade ago.
