The ex-fitness trainers creating a Black-owned ranch: ‘We need a new system’

The stress on the food system caused by the pandemic gave the Stewarts an idea: creating a commercial ranch in Arizona

On the eastern edge of the Sonoran desert, in the grasslands not ten miles north of the US-Mexico border, James and Rachael Stewart have arranged a dozen weight lifting machines and dumbbell sets.

At sundown, as they and their four children herd lambs and alpacas into their stalls, the occasional chick or duck passes between these markers of the Stewarts' previous life.