It’s a reunion. The three siblings meet with warm hugs and greetings. They’ve each travelled from separate parts of the state to be here. The siblings — Margaret, Bill and Richard — gather in a small hunting shed to discuss this place, the land that is their heritage. Here, 240 acres of cropland, wetlands, forest, […]
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It’s a typical day for Susan Young. She’s standing in the barn telling someone she just met about her llamas. A baby goat trots up and starts chewing on her pant leg. But she’s unphased. “They protect the goats from the coyotes that go creeping by in the nighttime,” Young finishes. “They’re valuable to me.” […]
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He built his farm from the ground up. Literally. When Ray Meylor first purchased his 10-acre plot just a decade ago, it was filled with ravines and untillable soil. “We had four-foot gullies coming through here,” he said. “The soil was down to pretty much hard pan clay.” Since then, he’s employed dozens of practices […]
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