Stewart Ramsey is the fifth generation to operate Ramsey Farm, located between Brandywine Creek and the Pennsylvania State Line north of Wilmington. He has significant help from his wife, Wendy; his son, Carl; his sister, Jane, and his brother, John. His mother, Jane, also helped before her death, and cousins help, too, on occasion. The[…]
Category: Meet Your Farmer
Meet Your Farmer: Jim and Janet Mitchell
Jim Mitchell, second vice president of the Delaware Farm Bureau, is the seventh generation of his family at Woodside Farm in Hockessin, a few miles from the Pennsylvania state line. The farm was established by Jim’s great, great, great, great grandparents in 1796 and was mainly a dairy operation for its first 165 years. Jim’s[…]
Meet Your Farmer: Laura and Roland Hill
Laura Hill, the first woman to be elected as a Delaware Farm Bureau officer — as second vice president in 2012 — is now first vice president of Delaware Farm Bureau. She has been a Farm Bureau member since 1977 and was a longtime 4-H volunteer. She has previously served as Sussex County Farm Bureau[…]
Meet Your Farmer: Kitty and Dave Holtz
Kitty Holtz, president of Delaware Farm Bureau, grew up “a country girl” — not on a farm but surrounded by farms. Her husband, David, on the other hand, always farmed. He grew up on a farm in New Jersey. They met in the summer of 1967 which prompted him to decide to move to Delaware[…]