Craig Thompson is a fourth-generation California farmer whose parents still grow rice in Richvale. But in 2011, he and his wife Jenny -- both in their late 20s at the time -- decided to start a new branch of the family farming tradition. They bought a small parcel of 100 acres in mountainous Siskiyou County, and founded Rockside Ranch: a mission-oriented, nonprofit livestock farm that teaches youth in crisis job skills through farming apprenticeships.