Interviews with Farmers
Interview with Jim, Kathy, and Ashley Lyons from Blue Moon Acres

Interview with a Farmer: Lisa Kaiman, owner of Jersey Girls Dairy in Cheseter, Vermont

Well, while attending veterinary school, aspiring to practice in food animal medicine, I saw the ‘accepted’ food animal system and decided the best course of action to impact what I concluded I could not work in day-in and day-out would be to teach by example. Do what I do, not what I say. So, I spent the next few years working on different dairies and observing the set-ups from a cow’s eye view. Noting what they (the cows) seemed to like and even more importantly...
Interview with Dan Finn, owner of Bovina Valley Farms in Delhi, New York

I (Dann Finn) grew up in Bovina, New York, on a small non active farm, in which my parents encouraged me to follow my agriculture interests and raise animals on a small scale. Pigs chickens and cows were the mainstay of those years and helped me as a teenager to have spending money and maybe save a little for college. I was discouraged from pursuing an agriculture career, as farming was a real tough business in the early '80s.
Instead, I moved to New York...