RANCHING: IT’S IN THE GENES
My dad was born at the turn of the twentieth century, when the land was worked in old-fashioned ways without herbicides, pesticides or expensive mechanized equipment. We grew a lot of the food we ate, and it was a healthy way to eat and live - it sustained our family for one hundred and twenty-five years - but when my dad could no longer work the land, my mother sold the farm and moved into town.
We thought that was the end of the Hunt farm. But then, some thirty years after our family quit farming, my oldest son Brian bought a small piece of ranchland in the Washoe Valley, between Reno and Carson City, Nevada. He didn’t want to work it himself, but hoped to make it available to someone else for a farm-to-table enterprise.
Then a couple years ago, God called my youngest son David into farming, and he began learning how to grow healthy food and raise healthy animals so the soil is built up and the land becomes more fruitful over time. David’s approach blends a lot of the time-tested ways and hard work of his great-great-grandad with the best practices of today’s leading regenerative farms.
When Brian bought the land, he had no idea his brother would someday work it. And when David first became a farm-to-table entrepreneur, he had no idea his brother already owned the land he would end up farming. But God knew. So even when the family left the farm, farming stayed in the family. Thus was born the latest iteration of the Hunt family farm.
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