Two for joy: Jill Shook meets a couple farming in Bolivia

‘It’s a beautiful symbiotic system.’

by Jill Shook 1st October 2021

The Kaufmans have lived in Bolivia for several decades but they are not typical Bolivian Friends. They are Conservative Friends who moved to Bolivia from Iowa twenty-five years ago and became cattle ranchers. They live as simply and as sustainably as possible. Neva has been a Friend all her life, and Grant was born into a secular Jewish family. With their mostly homemade plain dress they look like Friends who’ve stepped out of the nineteenth century.