BROOKFIELD, Vt.—Six generations of John Klar’s family farmed in the Green Mountains of Vermont, yet he had never baled hay or raised animals.
But in the late 1990s, spurred by chronic illness, he left his law firm, returned with his wife and children to the countryside of his youth and bought a family farm.
Fast-forward a couple decades and his life took another unanticipated turn, this time spurred by a run-in with a meat inspector over a Craigslist posting. Drawing on his legal background, the former tax attorney became an advocate for small farms and regenerative agriculture, as well as being heavily involved in today’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement….