Renewing the Countryside

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Grow Alabama

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Birmingham, Alabama Jerry Spencer is an entrepreneur. So it was with a sense of adventure that this chiropractor of 20 years–a man who had never in his life grown a single tomato plant much less a garden–dug up his front lawn one day and planted a vegetable plot far bigger than what would feed his […]

Heritage Farm

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A family-integrated agricultural operation Ridgeway, Pennsylvania Take a young couple firmly rooted in their dream of a rural lifestyle, raising their family on a small farm in the mountains. Add hard work, constant learning and innovation, a diversified approach to growing, five active kids, twenty years and a continued faithful love for the land and […]

Laughing Onion Farm

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Maria Inés Catalلn Hollister, California “If you’re a farmworker until you’re sixty years old, either your back breaks, or your spirit does.” That’s what Patrick Troy sees around him in California’s Salinas Valley. People call the region “The Salad Bowl of the World,” but few mention that the area’s agricultural productivity relies on legions of […]

Harmony Valley Farm

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Growing as Vegetable Interpreters Viroqua, Wisconsin “When a member sends us a note at the end of the season saying that you changed my life through changing how I eat, that’s the real bottom line for us,” explains Richard de Wilde, co-owner of Harmony Valley Farm with his wife, Linda Halley. With the same tender […]