Passing the baton
Libby’s twin daughters made the same commitment early on while shadowing their grandmother caring for calves. “They decided in high school that they’d like my mother’s job,” Libby recalls with a chuckle. After university, they came home and Jennifer Kimball and Johanna Chapman now work full-time on the farm — thanks, in part, to their grandmother, Allaire Palmer, who watches their kids. The twins’ brother, John, helps out part-time, while cousins, Chad and Andrea, work full-time across the dairy and logging operations. “It means a lot to all the generations,” Libby says. “It makes us proud to watch these young people grow and mature and take on more and more at the farm.”
