Jeremiah Lazo ’22 fell in love with agriculture in the fourth grade. A friend had asked Lazo over to his family’s ranch near Edinburg, Texas, where they raised cotton, cattle, sorghum and corn on 300 acres. Soon, and for the next eight years, he was heading to the farm every weekend and summer to help build barns, fix fences and manage cattle.

“I’d wake up at the crack of dawn to head out to the farm and work way past when the sun went down,” Lazo said. “I had other hobbies, but agriculture, farming and showing animals – that was really where my heart was, and I knew that my career would be in the food system."

Now an agricultural sciences major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Lazo was one of the first participants in the new Lund Fellows Program for Regenerative Agriculture, a summer internship that enables undergraduate CALS students to learn about ecological and social approaches to agricultural systems while working at diversified, small-scale farms in New York state.

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