PROJECTS FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

After 3 incredible, intense months of livestock farming in northern Pennsylvania, I drove 7 hours north up to Casco Maine to work on a 10-acre organic vegetable farm. Geof Hancock, the owner and manager of Hancock Family Farm, has a people-first philosophy of farming. Yes, organic practices are important and growing delicious food is great— but in the end it’s all for the purpose of bringing people together. After the last farm I worked for with a boss constantly pushing for

Moving Back to the U.S. for Now In April I traveled from Mexico back home to Nashville for my brother's wedding. Then I packed up my car and headed up to northern Pennsylvania to start a new job at Two Creek Farm. Leaving Latin America for the time being was a difficult decision, but my goal is to keep learning from regenerative and agroecological farms first hand. In The United States I can gain more experience and generate some savings to keep doing what I love in Latin Ame

A car decorated for the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe On December 12th, the streets of San Cristobal de Las Casas celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. People decorate the streets and make processions through the town. They drive their cars and motorcycles, decked out in baloons, streamers and images of Mary, honking constantly and chanting "¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!" The steps leading up to the Catholic Church on the top of the hill are bursting with people making the