By Brianna Smith
When COVID-19 overwhelmed hospitals across the country, Rebecca Dalton, a nurse, found herself pulled back into the frontlines of the ICU after spending years in patient education. She was having a hard time juggling pandemic care, while also raising her young children at home. On top of that, her husband, Edward, was a full-time farmer who needed help with the day-to-day demands of the family farm. She’d spent 18 years in the medical field, but something had shifted.
“When our twins were born, we started to look for a way for me to stop working in the hospital and spend more time at home, so we started to sell more direct-to-consumer beef,” Rebecca shared. “At the time, we were also having trouble finding employees. The farm is too much for just one person, but not enou