About Lynn R. Miller


Lynn R. Miller is one of the country's foremost experts on small farms. A multi-faceted speaker, author, storyteller, artist, teacher, and farmer, his efforts to champion the causes, and advocate the support, of the small independent family-based farms and ranches of North America have made a significant difference. As the originator(1976)/owner/publisher/editor of The Small Farmer's Journal, he offers to over 40,000 subscribers around the world a powerful tool for self-sufficiency, sustainability and community.

Miller earned Bachelor and Masters degrees in Art and Special Education from the San Francisco Art Institute and The University of Oregon. He has been farming since 1970 and working with draft horses since 1973. In 1976 he conceived of and started The Small Farmer’s Journal, an international farm quarterly. To this day he functions as editor/publisher.

Miller has authored (and sometimes illustrated) over 12 books on various topics related to animal power and alternative agriculture, including; The Small Farm Dream is Possible, Why Farm, The Workhorse Handbook, Buying a Farm, Work Horses Today, Training Workhorses, Thought Small, Ten Acres Enough, Horsedrawn Plows & Plowing, Haying with Horses and more. He has conducted workshops and lectured extensively throughout the United States and Canada. He continues with research and development in agriculture alternatives. He is currently farming a mixed crop/livestock, high-desert, horse-powered, family ranch raising Belgian Draft Horses, commercial beef cattle, free range poultry, potatoes, hay, grain, while working to dovetail operations into an ever more beneficial symbiotic relationship with the fragile surrounding wildlife habitat.

For twenty two years Miller has produced and managed a large and vibrant annual auction and swap meet market event for small farmers and horse farmers. He has received various awards including the Missouri House of Representatives Unanimous Resolution of Appreciation, The Garfield Museum Award for excellence in Agricultural Preservation Work, and was listed in the 1994/1995 listing of WHO’S WHO WORLDWIDE.

When recently asked to identify the ecologyissues he is most concerned with this was his answer:

"The two greatest environmental challenges today are related. They are poverty and the decay of community. Addressing these two issues goes to the core of small farm, organic, land reform, and ecology concerns." L.R. Miller

Lynn R. Miller is the editor/publisher/founder of SFJ and FR&a. He is the author of over 12 books which cover the subjects of small farming and/or animal powered agriculture.