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I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Cotton is my life.

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.