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Hobby farmer Fawn “Tarma” Richardson breeds Kangals on her hobby farm in Greenfield, Maine. She bought her first Kangal back in 2011, when she lived in Arizona. “Ten years of work, all gone in one night.”Įven before Richardson started her hobby farm in Maine, she bred Kangal Shepherd dogs, a livestock guardian dog with a fluffy sable coat and black muzzle hailing originally from the Sivas Province of Turkey. “I bred ducks for color when lived in Maine as a child, but they were wiped out by a fox,” she chuckled. Richardson’s passion for genetics started during her childhood on the very same land she returned to as an adult. “It’s like baking in the dark with a two-year-old.” Richardson’s passion is breeding, specifically shepherding dogs and the sheep they herd. | Photo by Sam SchipaniĪs with any other hobby, finding your passion is important in hobby farm life. Bringing passion to hobby farm life Hobby farmer Fawn “Tarma” Richardson rounding up her sheep with her Australian Cattle dog, Cooper. | Photo by Sam SchipaniĪbout a year ago, she decided she would stay for good.

Hobby farmer Fawn “Tarma” Richardson’s horses and cows eating hay. “I call them my Snuffaluffagus without the trunk. Richardson also has a few heritage breeds on her hobby farm, including two Scottish Highland cattle that she added to the farm two years ago. Over the past four years, Richardson has accumulated a number of animals on her hobby farm: two Appaloosa horses (which she bought in 2005 and moved cross-country with her from Arizona), guinea fowl, geese, Muscovy, rabbits, a pot-bellied pig, turkey and barn cats that drift in and out, just to name a few.

Geese on Fawn “Tarma” Richardson’s hobby farm in Greenfield, Maine.

Jacob and Navajo-Churro sheep on Fawn “Tarma” Richardson’s hobby farm in Greenfield, Maine.

Muscovy and ducklings on Fawn “Tarma” Richardson’s hobby farm in Greenfield, Maine.

Guineafowl on Fawn “Tarma” Richardson’s hobby farm in Greenfield, Maine.

She worked on the land during the day, while continuing to work remotely as an accountant at the hardware store where she used to work in Arizona (which still provides her income to this day). Richardson decided to make the farm her project - for the time being, at least. Aside from a few chickens and other poultry (including a few emus) that her sister had on the land, the former farm had not been operational for 15 years. Richardson moved back to the land that she and her six siblings grew up in Greenfield, Maine. That is when her hobby farm life truly began. They moved first to Montana and then to Arizona, where they devoted more of their time to their dogs and horses (in Montana, Richardson said she worked nights at Petsmart so she could spend time with the animals during the day).Īfter her husband died, though, Richardson needed to do some soul-searching. Richardson and her husband decided to make a change. I had a husband, a dog and a horse, and I never saw any of it.” “I was stressed all the time,” Richardson said. They lived in Arizona at the time - her husband worked as a mule guide at the Grand Canyon - but years before that, they lived in southern Maine, where Richardson held a six-figure corporate job that required constant travel. Richardson moved to Greenfield around 2015, after her husband died unexpectedly of a heart attack the year before. | Photo by Sam Schipani One woman’s path to hobby farm life Hobby farmer Fawn “Tarma” Richardson rolling a hay bale for her cows and horses.

Still, hobby farming can be deeply fulfilling, as Richardson has experienced on her own personal journey. Though some people dream of starting their own hobby farm, the journey to get there - and the daily grind of the hobby farm life - involves more commitment than your average pastime. “Maybe an income trickle or a seasonal swamp.” “There is no way a hobby farmer is going to have an income stream from hobby farming,” laughed Fawn “Tarma” Richardson, a self-described hobby farmer in Greenfield, Maine. Hobby farmers need to have an income from another job in order to support their lifestyle. Unlike commercial farms, hobby farms are for pleasure instead of profit. If you love farming but are not looking to make it your livelihood, hobby farm life might be for you. She works remotely as an accountant for a hardware store in Arizona at night. Richardson breeds Turkish Kangal Shepherd dogs and two breeds of heritage sheep. Hobby farmer Fawn “Tarma” Richardson based in Greenfield, Maine.