For six months last year, once a week between May and October, I put on a pair of overalls and played farm girl as a volunteer on a goat dairy near my home in Boulder, Colorado. I’ll soon start shifts for this summer. The experience has taught me a lot: That everything on a farm has a purpose. That nothing on a regenerative farm is wasted. That hard work is rewarding, as is caring for others, even if (especially if?) they’re goats. And that overalls rock as workwear.
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When my stint on the farm started last year, my husband bought me a pair of Dovetail Freshley Lightweight Overalls as a birthday gift. I’d owned a pair of super-baggy denim overalls in my 20s that I really wish I’d kept. But I hadn’t worn a pair of overalls since. Despite feeling a little, dare I say, sheepish about looking like I was playing dress up to rake some urine-stained bedding, I stepped into my new overalls, pulled the shoulder straps over a grubby t-shirt, and reported to my shift.
