Markham’s farming heritage keeps growing

Ask Bill Markham what he does every day, and he has his answer ready: “I work the sacred soil with my hands, my heart, my head and my soul.”

Bill maintains the family tradition of working the soil at M&M Farms, started in 1906 with a crop of sugar beets grown and harvested by his grandfather in on a farm in Loveland. Today the family, including daughter Jennifer Schlagel and son Brett Markham, tends 1,300 acres west of Berthoud. Brett and…