At Fearless Farmers our mission is to empower people from all walks of life to teach and practice regenerative agriculture.
Our Story
Our Fearless Founder, Amy Milliron, has known she had the gift of farming since she was a kid visiting her granddad’s farm in Arizona. Growing her own food was a lifelong passion and after years of trials (literally) and tribulations, Amy and her family got a piece of land and started to farm regeneratively.
After seeing the impact her homeschool programs, summer camps, classes, and tours had on the families in her community, Amy wanted to create a platform to help expand that impact as broadly as possible.
So in 2020 Fearless Farmers was born.
And her own farm? That’s Deeply Rooted Ranch. Fearless Farmers is headquartered there! It’s a bit larger, but just as community centered as it was when we started out. If you join one of our programs, you’ll have the opportunity to see for yourself!
Our Team
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Alexandra Wilson
Educational Operations Director
With a passion for and extensive experience in youth education, Alex brings her incredible energy to every Fearless experience.
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Millie Cunningham
Marketing & Partnerships Manager
Bringing a degree in sustainability studies, experience on farms and educating, Millie is passionate about regenerative agriculture and nature.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Fearless Farmers honors the dignity of all people because we are all nature.
Just as nature cannot thrive without diversity, we believe everyone’s uniqueness belongs. So, we are creating an environment of allyship where you can be fearlessly you.
Young Women & Girls
While just over half of all farms in the US have a female producer on staff, only 9% of farms are totally run by women. We celebrate them, and want to see the numbers of women farmers increase.
Fair and Equal Pay
The agricultural industry has a long history of exploitation, especially of migrant workers. We aim to change that by growing thriving communities that offer equal benefits and equal pay for equal work.
The History of Our Land
Our headquarters is based in Texas, on what was historically land worked by the Tonkawa tribe, and in a part of the state where slavery plantations were common. We know that we cannot change the history of this land, but we can change how we care for each other and honor teachings from the first peoples.
Why Are We Fearless?
Because we have hope.
Climate-anxiety and eco-anxiety are running rampant through our communities. People are afraid. They feel guilty about the past and hopeless for the future. They’ve lost connection with our place, our planet.
But of course, knowledge is power.
We choose to be Fearless because we know that connection to the places and people we love provides grounding when everything else feels unstable, like climate change, racial injustice, lack of access to quality education, and declining global democracy.
If we want to create stability and safety, there is an urgent need to support eco-literacy in our communities.
Future generations need ecological, place-based educational programs to help them create the connection between our bodies and our planet.
So we choose to fearlessly offer eco-literacy trainings to people who want to help spread eco-literacy throughout the world.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
They outlined 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our nonprofit programs support seven of them.
We are helping to ensure sustainable food production systems by teaching resilient and regenerative agriculture practices.
Regenerative farming and healing the soil-food web grows nutrient-dense foods that promote the well-being of all people.
We teach educators how to use place-based ecological education so they can offer quality education to the kids in their community.
Most farmers are men, our work focuses on upskilling women and girls so we can create equal opportunities on farms and ranches.
When people are taught about where their food comes from, reducing food waste at the producer and consumer level becomes a priority.
Our programs teach ways to strengthen our resilience and mitigate climate change through regenerative agriculture.
Regenerative farming helps combat desertification by restoring our soil and improving biodiversity on agricultural sites.