Christine Cassella and Michael Bennett met in 2011, just three years prior to settling the initial 23 acres of their Hambden Township permaculture farm, Light Footsteps, in 2014. Cassella, the mastermind behind Light Footsteps, grew up in Kirtland and got her feet wet with farming as a child. “My great-grandma had a farm and so my grandma grew up on a farm,” said Cassella. “I would go to my great-grandma’s farm when I was little and I guess the experience of the soil got inside me. And my mom was always a gardener — mostly flowers. She taught me the...
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