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- Meet Our Farmers
For Farm Aid, merchandise is part of our core mission – to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. We source USA-grown organic cotton for all our garments from the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Collective. Their farmers are committed to ecological practices and do not use GMO seeds or protocols that require toxic chemicals in the growing process. Your purchase directly supports these American organic farmers!
Judie and Greg Sage own Hickory Hills Farm in Wisconsin. "We landed in a really pretty valley in the 1980s," they say. "We've worked really hard on water and land conservation, and started breeding sheep for both the wool and the high quality protein meat. These Ramboulet and Isle de France sheep are very good mothers and have very good wool. It's so soft you can wear it directly on your skin. We always encourage people to buy American. Everybody wins when you buy close to the farmer."
Maddy Bartsch (they/them) is a natural dye farmer, art educator and organizer of local textile economies. For Maddy, seeing our textile systems as intrinsically linked to sustainable agriculture is paramount to the creation of a thriving decentralized textile economy in the Midwest. Whether in the fields harvesting flowers for dyes or teaching textile arts to learners of all ages, they are grateful for the many ways their passion around textiles brings people together. They farm cooperatively at Get Bentz Farm in Northfield, Minnesota, and live in the Prospect Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. Read about Get Bentz Farm in our Farmer Hero profile.
Carl has been operating his family farm in Texas with organic practices for over 30 years!
"Growing organic cotton helps build the soil and is more friendly to our environment." – Carl Pepper
Kayla works alongside her father, Carl, on Carl Pepper Farm, and is active in all parts of their operation, from driving tractors to marketing.
Jeremy is a fifth generation farmer in the south plains of Texas, where he practices regenerative agriculture and produces organic cotton, wheat, rye, grain sorghum and multi-species cover crops.
"Farming organically feels like it's the way the system was created to function." – Jeremy Brown
