Sweet Land Farm is the endeavor of myself (Erin) and my husband (Robby). We both graduated with non-agrarian degrees from a liberal arts college out west. These degrees fed us with a curiosity for everything including food and farming. Our senior year we got married, scorched a few tomatoes plants on our small roof garden, read of few books on farming and enjoyed cooking together. We then pursued an apprenticeship on a small Organic Valley dairy in Vermont, Stony Pond Farm. Stony Pond Farm ranks in the top one percentile for herd health in the United States making it a great place to learn how to keep healthy cows. During our apprenticeship we enjoyed an entire season of experience in rotational grazing, cow/calf operations, dairy protocol and of course, plenty of amusing cow moments. Robby is effortlessly developing a career as a bovine comedian. Ask him to tell you a story. Vermont is also a very nurturing place for young farmers. There we were able to attend handfuls of helpful and innovative workshops on gardening, composting, crop rotation, and raw milk.

We farm because we love the creation. When you stop and look out at the world, it's easy to be angry with all the bad, vile, dishonorable, unjust, and just plan depraved things happening all around us. This corruption fills all areas of life: politics, medicine, agriculture, and education. Our world is full of dark places that need redeeming.

We have chosen to try and redeem farming. Farming, and the good food it creates, heals the land, the people who consume it, and the animals. Good food and farms are great things, but they will not save us. God made the world and called it good. The Fall has broken it. Sweet Land Farm is our attempt to redeem agriculture, even if it is only a small, small farm with a couple of cows in the hills of southwestern Virginia. We want to make the bitter pastures sweet again. We want to farm in a manner that will enable future generations to thrive while continuing the work of making a new earth.