Fall 2022
Stress & Wellbeing

Letter from the Editor As you may know, this issue on Farmer Stress & Wellbeing was supposed to be published in September 2022. I’m not...

By Christa Núñez Ecological Gardening & Knowledge Sharing Have you ever been out working in your fields or kitchen garden and been...

By Ann Adams As we near the end of 2020, we find our world vastly changed from how the year began. If someone had told me that most...

By Becca Toms As you drive down the long driveway to reach Daigle Farm in Brooklyn, you may see deer pausing by the property's pond after...

By Jac Wypler (they+she) Since living through Covid-19, it’s easy to recall times when friends and family sought to relieve stress by...

By Valerie Woodhouse Self-care as we usually imagine it doesn’t have a place on my farm. I’d love to say that my clinical social work...

By Hamadi Mganga, he/him Alam is Providence Farm Collective’s newest incubator farmer. Providence Farm Collective, or PFC, is a nonprofit...

By Maggie Cheney This is a good point in the season to talk about farmer care. In the Spring, there’s always such a palpable joy and...

By Jon Magee “We have to break with the professional doctrine that ascribes virtually all of the problems that clients experience to...

By Claudia Kenny Conflict Stress Conflicts are stressful and over time can have destructive effects on our relationships. During a...

By Angela Highsmith AH: What initially comes to mind when you think about mental health on the farm? AS: When I think about mental...

By Ricky Baruch and Deb Habib, Seeds of Solidarity Farm Face the direction of sunrise upon waking and wash it over yourself. Let the...

By Karma Glos I believe our urge to travel was inspired by French interns. Early in our farming, we hosted several French agricultural...

By Elizabeth Gabriel Mental health is often an overlooked challenge farmers face nationwide. There are a multitude of issues that...

By Erica Frenay What causes you to feel stressed out? Major sources of stress in my life include, in no particular order: money, kids,...

By Megan Browning, NOFA-VT Abbie Corse, an owner and operator of the Corse Farm Dairy, in Whitingham, Vermont, has been learning to...

By Sara Norton With a borrowed camera and a list of people to track down, Al Johnson set out on an odyssey of 1,600 miles to make the...