Hannah Breckbill

Hannah Breckbill became a farmer out of a desire to be tangibly useful to humanity. She’s a community organizer by nature and loves to channel the power of relationship into right-sized action. She has worked with Humble Hands Harvest in Decorah, Iowa since 2013, raising organic no-till vegetables, grazing sheep, and planting fruit, nut, and shade trees. Through Practical Farmers of Iowa, she works as a Land Access Navigator, supporting land seekers as well as land owners looking to transition. Hannah serves on the boards of the Oneota Community Food Cooperative, the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust, the Iowa Food Hub, and the Farmers Land Investment Cooperative, and she had the privilege of being named a Rural Regenerator Fellow through Springboard for the Arts. She hosts an almost-annual Queer Farmer Convergence, plays music any chance she can get, and is grateful for the bobolinks and meadowlarks on her farm.

Plenary

Unconventional Economics of a Farm Startup (or, Queering the Family Farm)

Humble Hands Harvest is a worker-owned cooperative farm with a community-based land access story and a commitment to public experimentation in the gift economy, commoning, and other alternatives to capitalist norms. Hannah will share some of their stories as well as lessons learned along the way.