The Organics

This profile is a seminal component of a major work portfolio head lighting organic farmers whose hands are as expressive as their faces, and whose hearts have lead them to a proactive life of caring for the earth and others. "Growing up on the farm, I really never saw myself coming back and making a life here – I needed to get away and create my own story,” Cheryl Ferguson of Plum Granny Farm in Piedmont North…

  We had a family garden when I was growing up in Alabama, and my dad gave me the responsibility of taking care of the beans. I really enjoyed that experience - a real sense of pride that has stayed with me. What impacted me the most was one day when I was working construction (on the west coast) and I looked into the field next to our building project, and the field crew were…

  Kate Schumacher has lived her whole life in the South, and as she tells it, "rural spaces have been a part of my entire existence."  A college education and a few months into graduate school put her into a panic when she finally figured out that  she wasn't living a meaningful existence.   Career testings consistently pointed her to fields of study that had the word "agriculture" in them and on a whim and at…