Episode 85: Jake Shapleigh

Jake has been working on farms since he was thirteen. He lives on his own family’s farm, raises beef cows for show and for meat, and has a horse farm were he and his family do every thing. Jake has been working with Brookford Farm since their beginning when they were milking only 17 cows and had just a few chickens. He’s seen amazing growth at the farm, and has been there to help out with just about all of it, from milking cows to cutting firewood. Jake is currently in high school and when he graduates, he wants to continue farming. He plans to go to the Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) in Ohio to major in dairy sciences so that he can own and operate his own dairy farm some day. This episode was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.