Tomatoes as Trump Cards Granby, Massachussetts While growing over forty vegetable crops each season, it’s their nearly year-round abundance of award-winning tomatoes that have made Red Fire Farm, of Granby, Massachusetts, the talk of the valley. Growing crops on about 45 acres, owner Ryan Voiland loves his work because of the diversity of the skills […]
Earthrise Farm
A Healthy Beginning After 40 years at the Sisters of Notre Dame convent school, Annette and Kay Fernholz returned to their family home in Louisberg, Minnesota and with the help of the convent established Earthrise Farm in 1996. It was a risky, but hopeful start for the sisters and their first year they had only […]
Laughing Onion Farm
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 […]
Earthen Path Organic Farm
A Seasonal Dance On 14 acres in the hill and coulee country above the Mississippi River in southeastern Minnesota, a seasonal dance with the forces of nature takes place. Earthen Path Organic Farm weathers the storms, continues to flourish, and produces organic fruits and vegetables that connect the cycles of planting and harvesting with local […]