Mark Shepard didn’t set out to be a farmer, let alone a visionary one. Yet, three decades after securing his first piece of land, Shepard is one of the leading voices in non-traditional farming. He’s ...

In "Astronaut" he plays Shepard Farmer, the son of a NASA pilot who is forced to give up his dream of space travel to take over the family farm. But his screen father, Thornton, can't let it go.

Sam Shepard, paragon playwright of the American West, was born to roam. With a father who was an Army officer and sometime farmer and a mother who was a teacher, Shepard — born in 1943 ...

about a disillusioned American farmer and his fractured family. The Broadway adaptation was nominated for five Tony Awards. In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, Shepard joked about people ...

He grew up, for the most part, on an avocado ranch in Duarte, California; his father, Samuel Rogers Shepard, Jr., was a former fighter pilot turned indifferent farmer and heavy drinker.

Jacob Shepard, who is one farmer at a family owned farm called Shepard’s Farms in Onslow County, says droughts are a concern. “Considering how it’s been going this year,” said Shepard.

but he stuck to pieces that meshed with his Southern California roots and status as a former member of the Future Farmers of America. Keeping things relaxed even as his star rose, Shepard liked ...

Wednesday, the 29-year-old Porterville farmer signaled he was ending a recount that began on Dec. 17. Shepard declared a victory of sorts by saying that “nine voters who initially were prevented ...