by MarketSmart | Mar 9, 2021
For a Christmas present back in 1997 we were given “a part of a goat”. Immediately after that there arrived through the mail, a copy of Heifer’s World Ark. In reading through the magazine, I came across information about a school program called Read to Feed. Being the...
by MarketSmart | Nov 19, 2020
I’m an Iowa retired farmer, 90 years old. I live alone. I lost my wife two years ago. I have seven children, fifteen grandchildren and twenty-one great grandchildren. I first heard about Heifer Project in the 70’s when a Heifer Volunteer came to our...
by MarketSmart | Oct 23, 2020
Meet Kaitlyn! She is a bright, empathetic, hard- working, caring seventh grader. I first met Kaitlyn when she was a student in my first grade class. She, along with others I have met along the way, have kept my passion and drive for Heifer alive. During the last six...
by MarketSmart | Oct 19, 2020
September 11, 2001. I was horrified by the events of the day, and confused. Why would anyone do what those 19 people had done? I could not make sense of it. And about two months later, a Heifer Catalog (mysteriously) ended up in my mail box. I had never heard of...
by MarketSmart | Oct 19, 2020
I moved to CT and on the front first page of the second section of the local paper was an article by Sharon Blair about her volunteering for Heifer; that was in the early 1980’s. I went up to Overlook Farm with her and was immediately pulled into the incredible...
