Photo by Laura Guido
MARGARET FELTS WORKS ON HER SMALL FARM IN WOODINVILLE.
Incubator farmer is Gaining Ground in agriculture industry
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osing a job almost always results in a significant life change, but for Margaret Felts, it was completely life-changing. She worked for years in marketing at a corporate engineering firm, until getting laid off. 48 | Woodinville Magazine / July/August 2021
By Laura Guido “It was kind of a blessing in disguise when I got laid off there,” Felts said, standing on her quarter-acre piece of farmland in Woodinville. Felts is now the owner of Gaining Ground, a small-scale growing operation that’s an incubator farm with the organi-
zation Viva Farms. She’d been gardening at home most of her adult life and had a strong interest in eating healthfully and sustainably, but she didn’t know exactly how to get started. However, one of the first things she learned was that
