4 Iowa Sisters Pursue Regenerative Future for Their Family Farm

By: Megan Schilling

Since inheriting their northeast Iowa family farm in 2009, Carol Bouska, Peg Bouska, Ann Novak, and Sally McCoy have forged a future for the land and the next generations by establishing a strong vision and defined goals.

While none of them live on Highland Farm today, it is the family’s heart and soul, past and future. It is where their father, Edward Bouska, was born and where he died. Where their mother, Elmarie, would join them in their playhouse tucked into the woods, and they all would run around barefoot.