By 1999 he had started farming on his own, growing 11 varieties of garlic on 65 acres in Walton, Ore.
— that Henderson had started farming for people down south who wanted lamb that didn't taste like lamb, and were happy to pay for it.
This was his boyhood dream of a place: giraffe, impala, warthogs, game birds, and so many white-tailed wildebeest that even his German sea-captain ancestor, who had started farming near the Cape in 1713, might have envied him.
He said many of his students in recent years have started farms after graduation.
While federal law still prohibits its cultivation, some enterprising and daring individuals have already started farming hemp.
Sixteen years earlier, when they had married and started farming together, a herd that size would have been more than enough to keep them afloat.
This farmer has a Ph.D. in sustainable farming and has started an innovative private farm that supplies organic produce to some of the top paladares.
Lauri Roberts, an entrepreneur in Warwick, R.I., has started a company called Farming Turtles ("I wanted a name that was funny and memorable," she said) to grow nine kinds of microgreens.
