Who makes this farm possible?

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March 20, 2025

Dear friends and family,

We are here because you are! Some of you have supported this farm since 2020 when we got started, some of you just found out about us this month. Regardless, we are able to continue running this small farm because you understand the value of shopping locally. And you choose to invest in ethically raised, pastured meats.

Here are just a few of the people who make up this farm’s community of supporters. We appreciate you more than you know!

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We had a baby!

A baby calf that is. On Monday, Feb 24th we welcomed our first birth on the farm. We didn’t know mama cow was giving birth until CJ checked on her in the late morning and found a little bull calf cuddled up in the bedding and mama still shedding her afterbirth. You may wonder how this can be our first calf when we’ve been raising cattle for 5 years. We have always been a “stocker operation” which means we buy calves from other farms once they’re weaned and raise them for 18-20 months for beef. We made this choice very consciously.

A Humbling Award

What an honor. We were awarded the Beginning Farmer Award from the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association at their annual farm conference this weekend. Thank you Lauren Hirtle for nominating us and for bringing us into the policy world to share our farm story with legislators!

Becoming First-Generation Farmers

We are first-generation farmers, neither of us growing up in farming families — though CJ grew up doing 4H and raising show pigs in the backyard and I grew up driving down to Athens from Columbus to visit her uncle and aunt, ride horses, and fix fences. Many people ask how we took the leap into running a farm. We certainly don’t have all of the answers, but every year we learn so much about the risks and rewards of farming. And given that only 3% of Americans are farmers, we want to share our experience in order to connect more people to the realities of running a small farm in the US.

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MoSo Farm

5686 Enlow Road
Athens OH 45701
740-331-0357

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