The Farmstand: RAFI’s Blog

“I think there’s something wrong in the world when you see basketball players and football players getting paid millions of dollars, but you’ve got firefighters, policemen and farmers not getting paid what they should.” - Ben Haines

Seven farming families have discovered a way to provide financial sustainability for themselves while creating jobs for their community by raising something as strange as a crazy claw prawn.

What we do is an amazing privilege that we wouldn’t trade for the world. Nor would we trade our volunteers who are in the thick of it with us. It truly takes a village to get things done.

“Follow the cows instead of leading them." Through his own epiphany, Tom has helped enlighten countless dairy farmers and policy makers throughout the country and abroad.