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One of the major obstacles to any beginning farmer is the availability of good, affordable land. When Rachel and Eric began searching for a place, within an hour-and-a-half radius from D.C., they got a bit discouraged.
Cliff Miller, meanwhile, had been searching for a couple of years for someone to farm 20 acres of bottom land. He knew that he didn’t want grain crops, as the land was vegetated with many perennial weeds, which conventionally would have been addressed with chemicals. Cliff was clear about not wanting chemicals, feeling the land was too environmentally sensitive for raising soybean or corn crops, the typical commodities grown locally.
“I wanted to see the land treated well: sustainably, going back to what we did 120 years ago,” said Cliff.
What started him on this idea was getting a couple of Belgian workhorses, and learning that his family’s dairy farm had been run with mule teams. Everything that went into the mules was grown on
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