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Tiashoke Farm

Tiashoke Farm Buskirk, NY

Coming Home to Stay While some dairy farms are challenged to find the next generation of farmers, Tiashoke Farms had the opposite problem—if you can call it a problem. Although Frank and Terry Ziehm pushed their three sons to explore...
Thorncrest Farm

Thorncrest Farm Goshen, CT

A Different Kind of Chocolate Milk Farmer-chocolatier Kimberly Thorn crafts her Milkhouse Chocolates by meticulously matching the milk of each cows with all-natural flavorings like farm-grown mint or raspberries. The “buttery, honey, creamy caramel” milk of Daydream, for example, is...
The Farm at Wheeler Mountain Barton, VT

The Farm at Wheeler Mountain Barton, VT

Shared Love, Different Breeds When Joanna and Adam Lidback first bonded over their mutual love of cows they overcame the fact that he was a Holstein guy and she was a Jersey girl. Today, their blended herd at The Farm...
Stuart Farm  Stratham, NH

Stuart Farm Stratham, NH

Love of Nature A shared love of nature first brought John Merrill and Lorraine Stuart Merrill together as college students. “John grew up hiking in the White Mountains, working on trail crews in the summer. I’d spent my childhood on...
Scholten Dairy  Baldwinsville, NY

Scholten Dairy Baldwinsville, NY

Perseverance A devastating barn fire, a new highway built through their farm, suburban development pressure—the Scholtens have been through a lot since Adriena and Jacob Scholten left their native Holland as newlyweds in 1959. They first landed in Iowa where...
Sanctuary Dairy Farm Sunapee, NH

Sanctuary Dairy Farm Sunapee, NH

Ice Cream Dreams At the age of nine, tenth-generation dairy farmer Beck Johnson had a dream. Like lots of kids, he dreamt of ice cream—but in this case, he wanted to make it, not just eat it. And so Sanctuary...
Chambers Farm LLC

Chambers Farm, LLC Heuvelton, NY

A Family Tradition As the Chambers Farm sign proudly proclaims, farming has been “a family tradition” since 1898—and the tradition continues. The baton has passed into the hands of Dan Chambers, who grew up the second youngest of six kids and eventually joined his parents, Ken and Peg, to keep...
Caverly Farms

Caverly Farms Clinton, ME

From 4-H to 400 Milkers The Caverly Farm started out close to 75 years ago as a small 4-H project for the family, a passion that has grown into a multi-generation business. In 1962, Frank Caverly formed a partnership with his brothers EC and...
A. Ooms & Sons Dairy Farm

A. Ooms & Sons Dairy Farm Valatie, NY

American Dream With a farming history dating back to the 15th century in his native Netherlands, Adrian Ooms immigrated to the United States in 1950 on his own quest for the American Dream. He found it in the fertile Hudson River...
Shop Rite and Cabot Pedaling for Good

ShopRite & Cabot: Pedaling for Good!

The challenge was made and accepted. Cabot and their friends at ShopRite came together for the “Pedal for Good ShopRite Store Challenge.” Seven stores invited their customers to ride the Cabot human–powered bike blender to create delicious Cabot Greek-style Vanilla...
Foster Farm Family

FarmLove – Foster Brothers Farm | Sustainability

Bob Foster has been on the leading edge of dairy diversification since the early 1980s. He coined the term “Cow Power” when he saw the opportunity to source clean-burning, environmentally safe, abundant energy from right under his feet…literally. The Fosters were...
Foodbank

Atlanta Community Food Bank

Virtually every community around the country has a network of volunteers that provides hands-on assistance to local charitable organizations. Those volunteers all have one thing in common: they all feel a desire to lend a helping hand to those in...