Lynn Miller was born in Kansas City, KS in 1947. He received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the University of Oregon. He majored in painting with minors in ceramics and special education. During his college years he followed his other passion and worked on farms to pay the way. He is a certified artificial insemination technician for cattle and horses with extensive private studies in bovine genetics. Before acquiring his own farm he managed a commercial goat dairy, a commercial broiler ranch, a purebred Angus cattle ranch and sheep ranches for absentee owners. His interests in alternative agriculture and one of his employers, the chairman of the international trade commission, put him in contact with key governmental and industrial players in agricultural policy. In the early 1970’s he acquired his own farm and set out to do everything organically with animal-power. He has been politically active in farmland preservation and marketing issues. His farming success brought him some national attention and notoriety. In 1976 he founded the Small Farmer’s Journal (SFJ) an award winning international agrarian quarterly.

Editor and  publisher of SFJ for 33 years, he is the author of 12 non-fiction farm-related books, one book of poetry and one novel. He is the author of numerous essays published in dozens of periodicals over the last 30 years. He was included in the Yale University Press compendium entitled ‘Rooted in the Land’.  He is recognized globally as a premiere authority on sustainable agriculture, organics and animal-powered farming. He is the recipient of many awards including a unanimous citation from the Missouri House of Representatives for Excellence in service to Small Farms, the 1992 Garfield Award for Agricultural Preservation, the 1999 Steward of Sustainable Agriculture Award at Eco Farm, and the 2005 Utne Award for Excellence in Environmental Coverage. He has lectured and keynoted, and delivered over one hundred workshops, clinics and demonstrations at dozens of venues throughout North America. He continues as a father, grandfather, farmer, horseman, writer, painter, educator and lecturer. His drawings and paintings are in private and public collections throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is the co-founder of the Small Farms Conservancy.