“Veronica Mars” star Jason Dohring has stepped away from acting to focus on a new passion.
During a recent appearance on the “Don’t Do Nothing” podcast, the 44-year-old actor shared that he developed an interest in gardening around four years ago and told his agents, “I’m just going to go farm for a minute.”
“I just got an interest in it and I’ve kind of the last three years I built like, I’m on my third farm now and we’re just making great food for people cause I really realized that people are getting sick from the food that they’re eating,” he said.
He first began planting in Los Angeles, before developing a 14-acre farm in West Virginia, where they planted 4,000 trees, including apples, cherries, pears, peaches and nectarines, noting he probably planted “3,500 of them myself.”
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The actor now lives on an 11-acre farm in Florida with his wife, Lauren Kutner, and their four kids, noting he moved there because of the weather. He said that when farming in California, they weren’t allowed to drill a well and would run out of water.
“L.A. is crazy. [You can go] eight, nine months with no rain. You know what I mean?” he said. “That’s when I when we moved to Florida I was like we get infinite rain. We have infinite manure. Like you know you could farm for free.”
Dohring is proud of his Florida farm and the regenerative farming method he uses, which involves growing the crops without chemicals. Through this method, he says that on his farm, “stuff is starting to get much better.”
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“There was this old guy and he’s like, ‘Are you the owner?’” he said about a recent experience on his farm. “And he’s like, ‘I’ve been praying to God that the gate was open so I could come in here and see this cause I’ve been in agriculture since I was 12. I’ve never seen anything like this before.’”
Dohring first rose to fame playing Logan Echolls on “Veronica Mars” opposite Kristen Bell, for three seasons, from 2004 to 2007.
He starred in several other projects, including “Moonlight” and “The Originals,” before returning to film the “Veronica Mars” feature movie in 2014 and the one-season revival in 2019. His last acting gig was four episodes of “SEAL Team” in 2021.
While he has stepped away from acting for now, he admits, “I’ll probably jump back into it at some point,” adding he has already done a short film for a friend.
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“I love art, and when I get around art, even talking about this is exciting to me,” he said. “I think there’s something in everybody that is aesthetic, meaning beautiful or wants to create.”
The actor married Kutner in 2004, shortly before “Veronica Mars” premiered. The two first met and became friends while in high school, with Dohring saying their friendship is the foundation of their marriage.
Since getting married, the couple have welcomed four children: son Owen, and daughters Lily, Ainsley Mae and Isla Avery.
“My wife and I were married 20 years ago today,” he wrote on Instagram in July 2024. “We have had an amazing life together, including raising four incredible children. I consider her my best friend.”
