Chan Phillips grew up on a feed corn, alfalfa, and soybean farm in south central Iowa. He talks about his childhood growing up with seven siblings on a homestead with his mother Ruth and father Bayard. “A steward of the land” is how Chan remembers Bayard, a hard-working man who was the first to use no-till farming in his area and was the fifth-generation farmer on his family’s land. Chan discusses the recent rise in young farmers and urban gardens across America and the importance of small-scale, local farms.
Cultivating Change 