{"status":"success","farmers":[{"uid":"1063","farm_name":"Springside Farms","city":"New Vineyard","state":"ME","zip":"04956-3040","membership_year":"2008","sustain_programs":[],"profile_url":"http:\/\/www.organicvalley.coop\/who-is-your-farmer\/index\/farmer\/1063\/","distance":0,"full_profile_url":"http:\/\/www.organicvalley.coop\/who-is-your-farmer\/northeast\/bates-me\/","profile":{"name":"ME - Bates","description":"Randall and Jill Bates are in the enviable position of having their twenty-something daughter, Allison, working on farm with them and happy to be there. \"Since she was a little girl, Allison always came to the barn with me,\" Randall says. \"She loves the farm and the animals.\" The Bateses milk about 40 Holsteins and Milking Shorthorns, with a few Jerseys thrown in. The farm transitioned to organic in 2005. Randall says, \"It really isn't that difficult. It's just a matter of learning a different way to handle things.\"","photos":[{"photo":"fileadmin\/img\/wyf\/ne\/bates1.jpg","caption":"Allison always has company in the milking parlor."},{"photo":"fileadmin\/img\/wyf\/ne\/bates2.jpg","caption":"Randall mingles with the cows."},{"photo":"fileadmin\/img\/wyf\/ne\/bates3.jpg","caption":"The Bates family"},{"photo":"fileadmin\/img\/wyf\/ne\/bates4.jpg","caption":"Jill gives one of the girls a rubdown."},{"photo":"fileadmin\/img\/wyf\/ne\/bates5.jpg","caption":"Allison makes sure the calves have plenty of nutrition."}]},"pools":["Beef","Dairy"]}]}