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How did you get started in photography?

I first started in photography while I was in college at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I took one class and fell in love with it. However, I have another passion for design and marketing, and that’s what I followed first.

Two farm kids are making a name for themselves in Nashville as a duo who pays homage to their dairy farming roots.

Since teaming up just a couple of years ago, the Dairy Daughters have opened for big names like Diamond Rio, Love and Theft, and the Bellamy Brothers, bringing to the stage a raw authenticity combined with incredible singing, song-writing and instrumental talent.

Whenever I talk to anybody about drinking whey, they look at me like I’m crazy,” says Sam Alcaine, assistant professor of dairy fermentation at Cornell University.

Encompassing around 1,000 acres, the Carter-Stevens Dairy Farm has been milking cows twice a day since 1938. Records show, prior to the 1938 purchase, the Allen family had farmed the land in Barre, Massachusetts, since 1749.

“It is slightly sweet when you first smell it. When you take a first sip, it has the heat you would expect in the vodka, but that heat quickly settles down and leaves you a sweet, almost caramel aftertaste,” says Omid McDonald, founder of Dairy Distillery.

After 25 years in business, Ag Oasis of Liberal, Kansas, has learned a lot about how to do things right. Part of that has been teaching – and learning from – summer interns as well as their full-time employees.