![]() Morningstar Meadows has expanded incrementally to seven acres of bean production and the Johnsons have no trouble finding customers. “That’s when I got the organic bug,” he said. “Ever since I was a child,” he said, “I knew I wanted to be a farmer.”Īfter returning to Vermont, Seth Johnson worked for pioneering organic farmers Jack and Anne Lazor of Butterworks Farm in Westfield for three years. They both went to college in Michigan where Seth studied conventional field crop production and did an internship on a 3,000-acre wheat farm in Kansas. ![]() Jeannette Johnson grew up in Cabot and the couple met in high school. The Johnsons, both 33, have two young children, 3-year-old Herluf (a Danish family name) and 5-year-old Maryann, with a third due next month. Since 2005, Seth and Jeannette Johnson have been raising a variety of dry beans including yellow eye, Jacob’s Cattle, soldier, cranberry and black beans on the farm where Seth’s family moved from Minnesota when he was a teenager. ![]() Yet a third piece of sorting equipment was up the hill in the basement of the family’s solar-powered home.Ī pot of beans is such basic, simple sustenance that it belies the challenge of growing and processing these nutritious legumes, particularly on a small, organic scale like that of the Johnsons. Glover – In his barn one recent morning among hay bales and an energetic golden retriever, Seth Johnson demonstrated how two different machines sort and clean Morningstar Meadows’ dry beans. ![]()
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