005 - Farming as Heritage - Nathan L'Etoile and Travis Krause

Our fifth episode features Nathan L'Etoile and Travis Krause. For this pair, farming runs in their blood. Nathan L'Etoile is, by best count, a fifteen-generation farmer. His family runs Four Star Farms in North Field, MA, a small grain and hops farm with a mill on-site. Like a lot of people in agriculture these days, Nathan works primarily off the farm. Still, he spends most of his evenings and weekends helping his wife, parents, and brother run the farm. Travis Krause owns and operates Parker Creek Ranch, a multi-species livestock operation, with his wife in D'Hanis, Texas. Travis is a seventh generation farmer, but didn't grow up thinking he'd manage the land that's been in his family since 1846.