Veronica Mars star Jason Dohring revealed he stepped back from his acting career to focus on farming: "We’re just making great food for people."
The Veronica Mars alum—who played Logan Echolls on the series starring Kristen Bell— revealed he’s put his acting career on hold in recent years as he’s grown more and more invested in his life as a farmer.
“About three and a half, four years ago, I guess COVID area, I sort of got into gardening,” Dohring recalled on the Aug. 26 episode of the Don’t Do Nothing podcast. “I was like, ‘Dude, this is so cool.’”
He got so into it, in fact, that a global pandemic almost passed him by.
“I didn’t even notice COVID for months ‘cause I was in my backyard, just gardening and stuff like that,” he added. “It wasn’t a huge thing, but then I just got an interest in it.”
Since then, the 44-year-old—who lives in Clearwater, Fla. with wife of 22 years Laurie Dohring and their four children—has built three farms.
“We’re just making great food for people,” Dohring explained. “The flavor of food can be so amazing and there’s an art that you can create too with the way your farms are built and stuff.”
The Violet actor got so invested in the process he told his agents, “I’m just going to go farm for a minute,” to which they responded, “Well, we’re still going to send you stuff.”
And that was more than fine with Dohring, because while his focus is on farming right now, he knows he’ll “probably jump back into” his acting career once he’s ready to again turn over a new leaf.
“I got a call to do somebody’s little short film a little while ago, and I went and did that as a favor to them,” he said, adding he’s been “enjoying that.”
“I love art, and when I get around art—even talking about this is exciting to me,” he shared. “It’s really amazing.”
And as much as he loves farming, having the opportunity to flex his artistic muscle is one that Dohring doesn’t take for granted.
“I think there’s something in everybody that is aesthetic—meaning beautiful or wants to create,” he explained. “When they see that, they feel it, so there’s something in them that resonates with that. I just love it.”
For a look at more stars who have traded in Hollywood for a new path, keep reading.
After the Mask of Zorro actor suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 2019, he moved back to his native Málago, Spain, to focus on his love of theater.
