Farm Hand: Travis Johnson
Travis Johnson is the guy behind the curtain, under the trailer, holding the wrench, and re-writing the firmware at midnight because something wasn’t working quite right. He’s not here for the aesthetics — he’s here for the outcome. He’s the architect of the farm’s structure, the fixer when it breaks, and the one who keeps it from spinning off the rails.
Travis is the builder, the coder, the planner, the optimizer, and occasionally the one holding a feed bucket while muttering about a better way to do this next time. If it runs, it’s because he made it run. If it logs data, updates over-the-air, or controls a gate from a thousand feet away, that’s him. If it looks like chaos but still somehow works? Also him.
But the job isn’t just tech. Travis is neck-deep in mud, sawdust, busted gear, tangled wire, and whatever the goats destroyed this week. He's equal parts maintenance technician, embedded systems designer, livestock logistics coordinator, and rural philosopher. He’ll spend six hours debugging a LoRa mesh system and then go pull a stuck trailer out with nothing but a come-along, three fence posts, and spite.
He’s not always graceful, not always patient, and definitely not always nice to the equipment — but he shows up, stays late, and does the work that no one sees because it keeps the entire system breathing. He’s the voice that says “We’ll figure it out,” and means it. And then does.
Without Travis, the lights don’t come on, the animals don’t check in, and the systems don’t evolve. He’s building this place not just for today — but for five years from now. For resilience. For independence. For a kind of legacy that’s powered by both passion and practicality.
Travis is the backbone of Triple "5" Farms — the one who built the tools, wrote the plans, and kept it standing when everything else said quit.
It’s not always pretty. But it works. And that’s kind of the point.
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