The Alpaca Company
Colombia, MO.  Diane Peckham and her husband, Nick, waved goodbye to the last of their three children leaving for college and packed up the household for 50 acres of woods, pasture and a creek. The farm is now home to 30 alpaca, raised for livestock and fiber sales.

Maichoa and Blong Lee
People of the Land:
Establishing New Roots
Maichoa and Blong Lee

Finken Farm
Taking over where his father had left off, Bob Finken expanded the family farm, diversified the crops, and introduced new ideas to the land in North Dakota. 

Diné Be’iina and the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land
When one first sees a flock of Navajo Churro sheep moving across the sage-covered flats of Navajo Nation lands, it is easy to imagine that they have been here, adapting to this land, since time immemorial. Their colors – buffs, browns, silvery-blues, cream, and black – seem to reflect the sky and the geological strata on the cliffs above them. They are the first and oldest continuously produced breed of sheep in North America. The ones on the Colorado Plateau today are probably descendants of those brought into northern New Mexico by the Oñate entrada in 1598, after their ancestors had adapted for millennia to the arid conditions in Spain, northern Africa, and the Middle East.

Bobolink Dairy and Bakeyard
Vernon, New Jersey . Ask Jonathan White to describe the cheese and bread he and his family make at Bobolink Dairy and he'll quickly say, "It's the joyful accumulation of everything we do." Based on an unconventional passion for keeping dairy cows outside on a natural diet of grass, this 200 acre farm in Vernon, New Jersey, exemplifies an artisanal food business for today's marketplace, dedicated to directly connecting with and helping educate their customers.