Current Evergreen students Alex Mutter-Rottmayer and Ross Finn (left and right, respectively) and Austin Carrier ’12 (center)  on their Olympia farm. Photo by Tony Overman, Tacoma News Tribune Staff Photographer.

Meet the face of farming today. No, not Archer Daniels Midland. The other face: sustainable, local, organic and young.

Austin Carrier ’12 studied architecture at Evergreen. His partners, Evergreen students Ross Finn and Alex Mutter-Rottmayer are studying evolutionary biology and chemistry, respectively. Together, they are The Soul Brothers and they run a farm.

Carrier handles land management and buildings. Finn’s biology & behavior education gives him dominion over the animals. Mutter-Rottmayer puts his chemistry studies to work detecting and solving soil problems. Natives of Tennessee, none of the Soul Brothers have farming experience. They have built the farm with the help of happy accidents, serendipity, and You Tube (short course on how to butcher animals).  Read the full article in the Tacoma News Tribune.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/18/2791005/the-accidental-agrarians.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/18/2791005/the-accidental-agrarians.html#storylink=cpy