Oksana Bocharova

Oksana Bocharova, originally from Russia’s Belgorod region, discovered her passion for farming early, inspired by her father Yuriy, a collective farm manager who taught her the fundamentals of agriculture. By age seven, she knew she wanted to farm. After graduating from Moscow’s AgroBusiness School in 1997, she moved to the U.S. via the University of Wisconsin’s Dairy Farm Training Program to deepen her animal husbandry skills. Her focus later shifted to vegetables and organic farming in Maryland, leading to the launch of her own CSA farm specializing in heritage fermented foods. In 2013, she purchased seven acres in Chestertown, MD, where she uses cover crops to enrich the soil and grows produce without synthetics or GMOs. Her commitment to the land is evident in the quality of her fresh and fermented offerings.