Brendon Rockey is a third generation farmer in Center, Colorado. On Rockey Farms, he raises specialty potatoes and quinoa among cover crop fields, all cultivated in a living environment. Companion crops, animals, cover crops and flowers replace synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. The 500-acre, irrigated farming system sustains yields, has greater water efficiency and it supports a flourishing ecosystem encouraging beneficial insects, soil microbes and carbon cycling.
Justin Knopf and his wife Lindsey live east of Salina, KS, with their three children. A fifth-generation farmer, he farms in a dryland no-till environment alongside his brother, Jeff, and father, Jerry. They raise alfalfa, wheat, soybeans, grain sorghum, corn and cover crops on predominantly silty clay loams and silt loams in a 31” rainfall zone.
Jared Estes not only defied medical odds to survive the fiery car crash caused by a 3-time DUI offender that took the life of his young beautiful wife...but his grueling recovery took him on a path that would either make or break him.
Despite enduring an icredible loss and the ain of more than 50 surgeries for his life-threatening injuries, Jared made the choice to not just get back up.. but to fire back.
Daphne Miller, MD, is a practicing family physician, author, Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco and Research Scientist at University of California Berkeley. For the past fifteen years, her work has focused on aligning agriculture and conservation with human health.
Adam Daugherty serves as the NRCS District Conservationist for Coffee County, TN. Adam started his soil rejuvenation journey back in the fall of 2013 with 8 long term no-till producers on about 2000 acres. Since 2013 Adam currently works with over 70 producers in Coffee County implementing diverse high biomass cover mixes on over half the cropland acres in the county. Adam has worked hand in hand with these producers from transitioning from long term no-till production into high functioning agro-ecological systems. Adam has been fortunate to be able to implement these systems across a w
