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MaryJane Butters is one of the richest Farmer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, MaryJane Butters's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
MaryJane Butters was the next to the youngest of five children born to Mormon parents Allen and Helen Butters. Her 1950s upbringing is often described as “unconventional” because the family raised their own food, made their own clothing, and “went nomadic on weekends, setting up camp in the wild to fish and hunt for their meat.”
In 1986, Butters responded to an ad for a remote, five-acre homestead and farmhouse at the base of Paradise Ridge in Moscow, Idaho. She eventually purchased the land sight-unseen for $45,000, and made the downpayment mostly from cash she’d kept in an old coffee can. The 1905 farmhouse burned down in a 1996 fire, forcing Butters and her children to move into an outbuilding until they could afford to rebuild. The farm continues to be the headquarters for Butters’ empire, and the site where her books, magazine, and websites are generated.
At a town meeting in 1989, Butters met a fellow farmer who grew organic, pest-resistant “desi” garbanzo beans that had proven to be unmarketable. Butters bought and experimented with the beans, eventually arriving at a dried falafel mix that she began to market under the Paradise Farm label in 1990. She began marketing other under-used organic crops and incorporated her food business in 1993 under the name “Paradise Farm Organics, Inc.” Today, she grosses over $1 million annually from her line of over 60 dried organic foods. Butters is the company’s president, and her husband, Nick Ogle, oversees production. In 1997, the company reached an agreement with Mountain Safety Research, a division of REI, to label and market her products. Butters’ food is now sold through her websites as well as through REI. Her backpacking line is also labeled in French and sold to stores across Canada by Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC).
