My Farm Roots: Making a mark of his own
By Peggy Lowe
This is the fifth installment of My Farm Roots, Harvest Public Media’s series chronicling Americans’ connection to the land.
When a guy is a mechanical engineer at a nuclear power plant, you figure he puts in a pretty good day of work.
Not so for Nolan Strawder, whose day job, as he calls it, is at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Burlington, Kan.
His nights – and mornings and weekends and any other free time – is putting his family’s farm back together and making it his own.
Strawder, 25, is living back on his family’s farm, 280 acres of land his mother, grandparents and great-grandparents established. The land is rented to other farmers and the old house sat empty for a few years, after his mom moved to town, so Strawder came home.
