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After high school Brown attended Union College, a liberal arts school in Schenechtady, New York. At the time she wanted to be an environmental attorney because she wanted to, "mandate that people do things the right way," said Brown, but in her second year of college a close friend observed that Brown’s father would soon be retiring from the farm and Brown would be a prime candidate to take over. Since her school did not offer classes pertinent to farming, Brown forged ahead with independent study classes focusing on farming.
Six months abroad added more to her cattle raising repertoire as Brown traveled to New Zealand and Australia observing the effects of cattle on the rain forest. Brown wrote her senior thesis on comparing rotational grazing to continuous grazing, and she now uses'this knowledge at Mount Vernon.
After graduation Brown received a job offer from The Farm Institute (Farming, Agriculture, and Resource Management) where she worked as farm manager and first put her ideas on rotational grazing to use. After outgrowing the non-profit aspect of The Farm Institute, Brown put her resume on the internet in the hopes of finding a job in Northern Virginia. Since Miller had no web site of his own to represent Mount Vernon Farm, it was through another Rappahannock farmer that a copy of Brown’s resume made its way into Miller’s hands. "Since he doesn’t have a web
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