Hillary Wilson

 Hillary Wilson is a farmer and food activist born and raised in Valle Crucis, in Watauga County. She graduated from Watauga High and attended Warren Wilson College near Asheville. In 2004, she took over Springhouse Farm, the vegetable farm her father ran for 25 years, with her sister and 3 friends and founded Maverick Farms, an educational non-profit farm dedicated to promoting family farming as a community resource and reconnecting local food networks. In 2009, Hillary moved away from Appalachia to learn about other farming systems and social movements. She worked at Hidden Villa, an educational non-profit farm in the Bay Area of Northern California, and at Edelo, an international art residency house in Chiapas, Mexico. Hillary has recently returned to Maverick Farms where she farms and directs Maverick Farms' non-profit activities and the farm.