This last year and a half, the pandemic has forced many of us to take a full-stop, and re-evaluate what really matters in life. Gavi and Remi Welbel, 21-year-old twin sisters, took pause when they learned their plans for resuming undergraduate classes were limited to online learning. For Gavi, this meant a break from studying mechanical engineering and earth plant science at Yale University. For Remi, it was neuroscience and dance at Middlebury College. After recalibrating and doing quite a bit of research, they forged a different path. Honoring their family, their roots in Judaism, and their desire to work towards a more regenerative agriculture, agroforestry plans were initiated to restore the soil and draw down carbon on the sixth generation family farm – one that had been growing corn and soybeans for more than six decades.
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