They guard. They herd. One even weeds. Meet the nine hardworking canine companions – and their humans – who wagged their way into our hearts.

“We’ve always thrived outdoors, and suddenly it was our job to go outdoors. That was a huge, delicious shock to the senses.”

How a young actress turned her ancestral farm into fertile ground for the arts – and found love along the way.

"I didn't even drink wine until I moved to California,” admits Joseph Brinkley, who farmed vegetables in Kentucky and his native Virginia before joining Bonterra as a vineyard ma...

Though Meagan Burns grew up on an Illinois dairy farm and married a Texas cattleman, it never occurred to her that she herself might wind up tending a 112-head herd.

“A good tomato isn’t cheap, and a cheap tomato isn’t good.” So reads the sign at Happy Cat’s farmers market stalls.

Although she went into social work after college, Palmer always knew she’d return to her family’s farm.

Leave it to a woman to revolutionize cattle ranching. Anya Fernald had a major beef with the meat industry, so she founded Belcampo, America’s premier eco-conscious source for carnivores.

The pair moved from Philly to small town Vermont when a neighbor ratted them out for their (admittedly illegal) backyard chickens.