Meet Our Organic Cotton Farmers

Apparel made from organic cotton

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!


Carl Pepper

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 Van Zielst

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 Brown

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