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Addy<br />
Elizabeth Bennett<br />
Gone<br />
Farming<br />
Addison Yates is no ordinary seventeen-year-old. While she excels in academics<br />
and extracurricular activities at Discovery Christian School in Florence, what really<br />
sets her apart is her ownership and management of her own farm. While most<br />
other teenagers are still sleeping before getting up for school, Addison is outside<br />
taking care of her farm. She feeds her pigs and goats before school and the rest<br />
of the animals after school.<br />
Ever since Addison was a little girl, she has always loved animals and had<br />
aspirations to be a veterinarian one day. “I’ve always loved animals. My dad was<br />
raising animals when I was growing up. I have bottle-fed skunks and deer,” said Addison.<br />
A trip to the flea market when Addison was sixteen sparked her interest for raising<br />
farm animals. She bought three chickens: Elvis, Peep Peep, and Priscilla. “That’s what<br />
started it all,” said Addison.<br />
Addison’s dad, along with her boyfriend, built the farm on which she now keeps<br />
around forty animals. She raises chickens, goats, a pig, rabbits, turkeys, dogs, cats and<br />
has a pet snake named Reuben in her bedroom.<br />
30 • April 2018
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