Bawden Farms

Brian, a third generation dairy farmer from Canada, and Liz Bawden, a Naturalist-turned-dairy farmer, started their farming career together in Ontario, Canada. Brian had been farming his whole life and started his own farm when he was 20 years old. Liz grew up in suburban Massachusetts, though she was always attracted to the outdoors and, as a result, took on a career as a naturalist working at nature centers and museums. They met when Liz was searching for a local farmer to provide sheaves of grain for the television series "Road To Avonlea" as a background prop for some scenes filmed at the Toronto museum where she worked. Brian had a field of mixed grain not yet combined, but he didn't have a binder. So they cut some grain with a weed wacker and bound the sheaves by hand. The neighbors are still giggling over that.

Hammond, New York