by Lisa Browne | Jul 14, 2019 | Ranchers in Transition
Rowdy Girl Sanctuary A Message From Rowdy Girl Sanctuary’s Founder It all started with Rowdy Girl, a little 2 month old baby calf that my husband wanted me to care for, hoping I would start wanting to be a “good” ranchers wife. I bought her for $300 having no idea...
by Lisa Browne | Jul 15, 2019 | Ranchers in Transition
The Traylors We are Richard and Cindy Traylor, from New Waverly, Texas. We own 20 acres and raised cattle on it since 1997. I always hated that Richard would take the babies to market. It made me sick, yet this was our life since we moved to the property. In late...
by Lisa Browne | Jul 29, 2021 | Ranchers in Transition
Bradley Nook Farm Jay Wilde’s family bought the farm in 1956 and Jay helped his father run it as an organic farm until his father’s death in 2011. As a long term vegetarian, Jay found taking the cows to be slaughtered to be very unsettling and was always on the...
by Lisa Browne | Jul 28, 2022 | Ranchers in Transition
Northwood Farm Death informs our relationship to life. Between 2017 and 2019, Laurence Candy of Northwood Farm in Dorset experienced numerous catastrophic events. It began by the loss of almost the entire dairy herd to bovine tuberculosis. Life-threatening family...
by Lisa Browne | Jul 30, 2021 | Ranchers in Transition
Halley Farm At age 14, Texan Bo Halley began his career in chicken farming alongside his twin brother, Sam—they learned the ropes from their father. As growers for Pilgrim’s Pride, the Halleys raised six batches of chickens per year—192,000 birds per batch—for 30...
by Lisa Browne | Jul 30, 2021 | Ranchers in Transition
Carolina Mushroom Farms Carolina Mushroom Farm began in 2016 by Steve Carroll, who worked as a turf research scientist at the time. Steve grew up raising hogs on the farm, but the old hog barns became vacant over time. He cleaned out the barns and put them through an...
