Posts tagged with: family

Head, Hands and Heart: Hidden Pearls Farm & Healing Center

By Violet Stone / October 8, 2025

I was so grateful to spend a summer afternoon sitting with Brett Grant in his farmhouse kitchen, learning about the spectacular emergence of his dream, and to share his story…

Networks of Support Help Farmers Achieve Land Access in New York State

By Mildred Alvarado / October 8, 2025

Land access models – based on relationships, collective and comprehensive learning, and the great effort of individuals – provide a roadmap for designing public policy, new farm incubator programs, technical…

Yates Farm Safety Day

By Sadie Jimenez / June 5, 2025

The Yates Farm Safety Day is a FREE and fun day for both children and adults to learn about potential hazards on a farm. It is open to ALL farm…

Halal Pastures: Where Faith “Meats” Family Farming

By Aysha Venjara / January 14, 2019

A Q&A with the owners of Halal Pastures farm, an organic halal family farm in nearby Rock Tavern, NY. People are hungry, for good, responsibly raised food. I was hungry, for…

Slaughter Daughter

By Lindsay Debach / January 9, 2012

My father is a butcher. He doesn’t have a potbelly or drape strings of sausages from his hands. He doesn’t have a mustache or wear one of those little straw…