One of the world’s oldest Christmas stories is that of Babushka, the woman who was too busy with housework to join the Magi in their quest for the Christ Child. But what possible relevance could that story have today, 2,000 years later? Let’s find out.

If you’re anything like me, you love Christmas. I actually enjoy the shopping and picking out gifts for the important people in my life.

Age: 49 Location: Belmont, New York History of your dairy farm, in a nutshell: Our family moved to the farm in 1974; we started the dairy in 1978 milking by hand. We went through stages of bucket milkers, pipeline, automatic take-offs and now are milking with robots. We raise all our replacement animals, grow all crops except grain; most of our feed is in the form of baleage (wrapped round bales).

Age: 61 Location: Stevinson, California History of your dairy farm, in a nutshell: My father was a dairy farmer in the San Joaquin Valley, starting the operation in the early 1950s. He was an immigrant from the Azores Islands. ... I started my dairy, Azevedo Organics, by the late 1980s.