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FARMERS
Fine Dining to the Fields: One man's journey from Chez Panisse to farming in the Sonoma Valley
Stitchdown Farm: Couple leaves the PNW and expands their flower farm and agrarian-focused creative studio in the hills of Vermont
Longest Acres Farm: Couple leaves the San Francisco tech industry to build a pasture-raised meat business and farmstead in the mountains of Vermont
Salt Water Farm: A NYC chef moves to Maine to build a destination cooking school
From Wall Street to farming in rural Georgia: Meet Meet artist and writer Margo Candelario of @youngfemalefarmers
From high-tech to hand-made: Apple employee leaves Silicon Valley to build craft skills brand from the mountains of Idaho
College farmer forges new path in California and looks to inspire a movement of young growers
From illegal backyard chickens in Philly to a flower and pastry business in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
Not beat by the heat: Meet Las Vegas urban homesteader Gerald Owens Jr. of @og_gardenfrenzy
From film to farming: An actor and filmmaker leave the 9-5 to revive a generational family farm in Texas
CNN Hero and Sow Much Good founder Robin Emmons at her urban farm in Charlotte, NC
Meet Alissa Mayber, a horse trainer and somatics instructor building a life in rural Oregon for herself and her twin boys
After tragedy, a brand strategist leaves San Francisco to chase her farming dreams on her own
The Farmers Hands: A NYC chef falls for an Appalachian musician and they build a cooking school in the mountains of North Carolina
Meet Krystle Sims-Cameron of For the Horticulture: She left the tech world in SF and returned to New Orleans to build a non-profit that helps Black families start growing their own food
An LGBT artist couple leaves Bay Area community to build Stark Hollow Farm in rural Vermont
Yellow Swing Garden: Meet Erica Neal, a writer and grower builds a permaculture suburban haven outside of Durham, NC
A passionate home cook leaves city life to duild her Well Fed Farm in the mountains of rural Virginia
Rural hustle: A creative family builds Foxglove Farm Homestead, a multi-faceted farm-based business in the Green Mountains
Five Marys Farms: Silicon Valley small-business entreprenuers relocate to the country to build a family ranch business from scratch
Two artists build Sky Farm, a repurposed urban haven and bohemian hideaway located in the hills just above downtown Los Angeles
The Kitchen Garden: A couple leaves the city to build an organic vegetable farm in Sunderland, MA
A mini-farm built from scratch in Central Texas
Little Seed Farm: Two former New Yorkers build a skincare company built out of necessity in Tennessee
Artists and NYC service workers leave the city to start an organic CSA in rural Maine
Meet the Harvest Queen: Helena and Matthew Sylvester of Happy Acre Farm in Suncol, CA
Two artists/musicians leave the NYC service industry to grow food and raise animals for their bosses farm-to-table empire
A back-to-the-land farming legacy: Meet Eliot Coleman, one of the forces behind the organic growing movement
Meet The Culinary Farmer, a former NYC chef turned North Carolina speciality grower
The Edible Garden 'Fairy Godmother' of the Hollywood Hills: Lauri Kranz, the founder of Edible Gardens LA
A California farmer and social justic lawyer relocate to Maine for family and affordable farmland
Goat dairy gamble: A cross-country move to Rural Maine with 40 animals along for the ride @coppertailfarm
Seattle music industry couple returns to home state of Wisconsin and builds Black Rabbit Farm
Fresh to Farming: Kiley Clark's journey from the Los Angeles food industry to farming full time
A tour of Kyle Hagerty of @urbanfarmstead and Morgan Daily of @dailyflourish urban haven in Sacramento, CA
Rough Draft Farmstead: A NYC sommelier and Chicago artist leave the city, meet while learning to farm and build their off-grid home in Kentucky
Beekeeper and musician leaves Brooklyn to build a farm-based business upstate
Skinny Jakes Fat Honey: An urban beekeeper and lawyer relocate to rural Minnesota to build an organic farm in a sea of conventional corn and soybean fields
A NYC chef leaves the city to farm in Appalachia
Big Picture Farm: An artist and a writer leave academia to build a goat milk confectionery business in the lush mountains of Vermont
Grounded Local: Woman leaves NYC to farm and builds a edible landscaping business in Maine
Tour writer and homesteader, Kirsten Lie-Nielsen of @hostilevalleyliving's 200-year-old farm in Maine
Odd Alewives Brewery: Art professors leave Baltimore academia to build a craft brewery in rural Maine
Werewolf Ranch: Couple leaves the Bay Area to build a farm education and events center at a former Montessori school in California's gold country
A single mother of four builds a regenerative farmstead in Northern California to give her children a better life
A nurse and a pastor build a minimal urban haven and flower farm on their small San Diego allotment
Redfeather Farm: Family leaves Seattle to build a pasture-raised farm in the mountains of Duvall, WA
Local Roots Farm: Seattle couple leaves the city to build a farm CSA and restaurant wholesale business
Sustainable Dish: Meet paleo advocate, nutritionist, farmer, and writer Diana Rodgers
At home with "city girl who married a farmer boy," Jade Winter Chessman of @jadewinterdays
