Category Farm Blog

   Plant Breeding and the Future of Food Jamie Bugel ‘13 grew up all over the country, from Virginia, to Kentucky, to Wisconsin, to Georgia, to Florida. For the first decade of her life, her grandparents owned a small farm… Continue Reading →

Family Cow Farmstand Not all students, in fact very few, come to work at the college farm with prior farming experience. Scott Hoffman, class of 2012, and now owner of Family Cow Farmstand, is no exception. Prior to his first… Continue Reading →

  After growing up in a farmhouse that dates back to the 1800s, Kyle Long had a connection to farming from childhood. Kyle was a student farmer at the college farm and then after graduation, was an apprentice for 6… Continue Reading →

Originally from Chambersburg, PA, past student farmer and apprentice, Steven Finely, has recently moved on to work at Red Fire Farm in Montague, Massachusetts. In terms of organic farming, RFF is on the larger end of farms, with about 110… Continue Reading →

When asked for an update to what he’s doing after college, recent farm graduate Sam Bogan had some exciting things to share.  “Working on the college farm was a big turning point for me. I relished in catching expressions on… Continue Reading →

Archaeology major, Silvana Kreines, shares her relationship to the farm and what she has done with her life after Dickinson.  “My time as a student farmer on the Dickinson College Farm was one of the highlights of my college career. It… Continue Reading →

Nicole Smith is a farm worker with a passion for animals. Above she is pictured at her internship with Utica Zoo from the summer of 2015, where she was responsible for the care of all the hoofstock, including her favorites,… Continue Reading →

Cindy Baur is a recent farm graduate, and she has decided that she wasn’t ready for her time with the farm to be over quite yet and is now one of the four farm apprentices. At Dickinson, Cindy was an Anthropology… Continue Reading →