My photographer and I took a 45-minute drive out to Burlington Wisconsin to meet Iris Lee.

“We have livestock poultry and goats,” Lee said. “We have to tend to our greenhouse, it’s seasonal right now but we plan on going year-round once we get everything equipped.”

Lee has 50 acres of land with history and heart. Her father bought this land in the late nineteen-seventies. After years as one of Wisconsin’s only black farmers, Iris’ father was stricken with cancer.

As she cared for him, she tried to infuse his diet with freshly grown food.

“So that’s what really got me into farming because older people I thrive for, ” said Lee.

But to turn that into a thriving lucrative farm, Iris knew she had a lot to learn.

Read more: https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/burlington-farmer-building-her-farm-one-acre-at-a-time

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