It isn’t Old MacDonald’s farm anymore. These local female farmers are as diverse as the seeds they sow. In a still male dominated industry, these DC-Area women are behind the produce and meat you eat.
Motroni with her mom, Chantal Brooks; her daughter, Neliya Motroni; and pre-vet interns Nadia Khan and Lilly Conteh.
Roxann Brooks Motroni is a large-animal vet who works for the USDA. So when her parents, both physicians, retired and bought a large plot of land next door to her home, she suggested they run cattle together. “I think everybody was just kind of like, ‘Sure, why not? We need to do something with this land, right?’ ” says Motroni, 37. Today it’s aalso involving Motroni’s husband, daughter, two older brothers and their families, plus volunteer farm vets in training.
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