Kristen Davis helps load the milking cows into their stalls at Silver Valley Farm on Farmington Falls Road in New Sharon.

Kristen Davis says hello to one of her steers at Silver Valley Farm on Farmington Falls Road in New Sharon on Wednesday.

Kristen Davis. at the age of 5, leads a calf adorned in a costume down the fairway during the costume parade at the Windsor Fair in 2003. Davis has been going to fairs as a member of 4-H since she was young and is attending Husson College beginning later this month, with the intention of becoming an advocate for farming after she graduates.

Kristen Davis, calls her father, Jim Davis, to begin the afternoon chores at Silver Valley Farm on Farmington Falls Road in New Sharon. Davis begins college at the end of the month and intends to become an advocate for farming once she graduates.

Kristen Davis, a recent Mt. Blue High School graduate, tends to the calves at Silver Valley Farm on Farmington Falls Road in New Sharon recently. Davis has received a scholarship for students who intend to go into organic famring, and she will use it as she attends Husson College, where she will study public relations and marketing with the goal of becoming an advocate for farming.