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Sheppardess Vanessa came to the United States from Italy in 1989 to study. She
obtained a civil engineering degree from Loyola Marymount in 1995 and a masters degree in civil and environmental engineering
from MIT in 1997. While growing up in Italy, she spent weekends and summers attending to the farm animals on her uncle's
farm in the Italian countryside. In attendance were horses, cows, pigs, goats, and food crops of rice, corn, & soybeans.
Today she still works as an engineer, applying her skills to her farm to produce utilitarian, yet artistic & sustainable
items for use on Stark Hollow Farm. Her philosophy of holistically managing a small pastoral farm infuses her work every day
at Stark Hollow Farm. To see more information about her handcrafted pasture gates, fencing panels, and creep feeders, visit
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Laura was born and raised in Vermont. She obtained a bachelors degree in communication
from the University of Southern Maine and has lived and traveled extensively in the United States as a business manager and
entrepreneur. She brings her own personal experience growing up on
a small homestead farm in northwestern VT where her family raised beef Shorthorn, chickens, geese, goats, and pigs. She acts
as general farm hand, manages the business end of things and is the excited assistant during lambing. She is also the resident
gardener and she has a deep love and respect for the land and the rural Vermont way of life.
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