From FairerScience coPI Susan Bailey

Recently my daughter and I visited our friends, the Fishers, in Virginia. We arrived at an exciting time.... they had just won the American Farmland Trust's Stewards of the Land award for their lifetime of work and devotion to the preservation of their farm, Brookview , as well as other farmland in Virginia. The days on the farm gave me a entirely new sense of science and of farming, for to me both Sandy and Rossie, are as much inventors and biologists and engineers as they are farmers--or perhaps a better way to state it is that farmers are most often all these things and more. From the movable chicken coops that help fertilize the fields to the egg washer Sandy made from an old washing machine, the farm abounds in practical inventions and organic farming techniques that clearly benefit us all. You can read more about Sandy and Rossie and their work in American Farmland. I know it will inspire you as much as it has me to remember that we all have bits of STEM in our lives....and to question the still prevalent stereotype of a farmer as male!