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In 2020, Hannah noted an uptick in online meat sales from the farm. Additionally, the farm's website sells products both from the farm and imported, including beef, pork, as well as baked goods, sourdough starter, homewares and flowers grown in
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competition). She appeared on stage in Las Vegas less than two weeks after giving birth to her eighth child. Her answer to a question about female empowerment attracted attention from conservative media: "After I hold that newborn baby in my
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that the family hires farm workers, a personal assistant, a teacher to homeschool five school-aged children, and an occasional babysitter. Hannah and Daniel have eight children, three sons followed by five daughters. They are members of the
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private. Daniel is also a Mormon, and grew up in a family of ten children. The couple got engaged after just three weeks. Hannah said that she is the first
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while serving on the board of a different security company. They spent three years looking for farmland and initially purchased a different farm in 2017. They then purchased
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in New York City. Hannah met Daniel
Neeleman, who is from Connecticut and studied at Brigham Young University, while she was in Utah over a Thanksgiving break in college. Daniel is the son of
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