If you pay a visit to Circle 7 Farms, be prepared to share a meal with the owners, Gail Fuller and Lynnette Miller. 

The Severy, Kan., growers believe farming is, ultimately, about food. They discuss food, they grow food and they serve food. Not the kind of stuff you get at a local café or fast-food joint. It’s locally grown, grass-fed and hands-on food. 

On the menu during a recent visit was lamb chops, fried potatoes and kale, plus salad with a ginger vinaigrette prepared by the hosts. The potatoes come from grower and cover crop aficionado Brendan Rockey’s farm in Colorado. 

“It’s food, isn't it? The one thing that we all agree on, right? Lynnette says. “Really good food, and when we know where it’s come from, it matters.”

Gail Fuller smiles more now than he did a decade ago. His hair has more gray than it did 20 years ago when he was a darling of the soil health speaking circuit, but his skin is tan and muscles toned. 

Back in 2016, Fuller was still recovering financially from a fight with his crop insurance company over his use of regenerative agriculture practices, especially cover crops. Those years took a physical, emotional and financial toll on him. 

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