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A passionate home cook leaves city life to duild her Well Fed Farm in the mountains of rural Virginia

A passionate home cook leaves city life to duild her Well Fed Farm in the mountains of rural Virginia

Couple leaves the NYC food service industry and build a thriving catering business in Maine

Couple leaves the NYC food service industry and build a thriving catering business in Maine

A NYC chef moves to Maine to build a destination cooking school

A NYC chef moves to Maine to build a destination cooking school

From illegal backyard chickens in Philly to a flower and pastry business in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom

From illegal backyard chickens in Philly to a flower and pastry business in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom

The Farmers Hands: A NYC chef falls for an Appalachian musician and they build a cooking school in the mountains of North Carolina

The Farmers Hands: A NYC chef falls for an Appalachian musician and they build a cooking school in the mountains of North Carolina

Sweet Homecomings: Returning to a childhood farm in Vermont to grow an artisanal preserves business

Sweet Homecomings: Returning to a childhood farm in Vermont to grow an artisanal preserves business

Meet the Harvest Queen: Helena and Matthew Sylvester of Happy Acre Farm in Suncol, CA

Meet the Harvest Queen: Helena and Matthew Sylvester of Happy Acre Farm in Suncol, CA

Fine Dining to the Fields: One man's journey from Chez Panisse to farming in the Sonoma Valley

Fine Dining to the Fields: One man's journey from Chez Panisse to farming in the Sonoma Valley

Meet The Culinary Farmer, a former NYC chef turned North Carolina speciality grower

Meet The Culinary Farmer, a former NYC chef turned North Carolina speciality grower

Goat dairy gamble: A cross-country move to Rural Maine with 40 animals along for the ride @coppertailfarm

Goat dairy gamble: A cross-country move to Rural Maine with 40 animals along for the ride @coppertailfarm

Five Marys Farms: Silicon Valley small-business entreprenuers relocate to the country to build a family ranch business from scratch

Five Marys Farms: Silicon Valley small-business entreprenuers relocate to the country to build a family ranch business from scratch

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

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

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

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

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

Big Picture Farm: An artist and a writer leave academia to build a goat milk confectionery business in the lush mountains of Vermont

Odd Alewives Brewery: Art professors leave Baltimore academia to build a craft brewery in rural Maine

Odd Alewives Brewery: Art professors leave Baltimore academia to build a craft brewery in rural Maine

Sustainable Dish: Meet paleo advocate, nutritionist, farmer, and writer Diana Rodgers

Sustainable Dish: Meet paleo advocate, nutritionist, farmer, and writer Diana Rodgers

SoLo Farm and Table: Chef and front of house manager leave NYC fine dining world to build two farm-to-table restaurants in Vermont

SoLo Farm and Table: Chef and front of house manager leave NYC fine dining world to build two farm-to-table restaurants in Vermont

Made in Ghent: Advertising executive leaves corporate world to build a farm business and photography career upstate

Made in Ghent: Advertising executive leaves corporate world to build a farm business and photography career upstate

Sydney creative industry couple leaves the rat race to build a regenerative farm business in New Zealand

Sydney creative industry couple leaves the rat race to build a regenerative farm business in New Zealand

Bernice's Community Market: Food justice activists build their first grocery story in Cotton Valley, LA

Bernice's Community Market: Food justice activists build their first grocery story in Cotton Valley, LA

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