Karen Machetta fell in love with agriculture in college when she learned to milk a cow in a dairy production course. She was a city girl who had spent summers on her grandma’s farm and still lovingly remembers every detail of the arrangement of nesting boxes in the hen house. Karen started her own farm […]
Pesta’s Vegetables
Food Quality and Health Jack Pesta’s interest in organic gardening began 25 years ago but a brush with cancer 14 years later made Jack realize the vital connection between food quality and overall health. Limited by the number of organic options available in the grocery store, Jack and his wife, Lucille, started to grow as […]
Sno Pac Foods
World’s First Pete Gengler is happy that his family and its company, Sno Pac Foods, Inc., got into the organic food business early. Touting itself as the world’s first grower/processor of frozen organic vegetables, Sno Pac, located in Caledonia, Minnesota, is in its third generation of ownership. Pete Gengler’s mother, Darlene, is the last of […]
Stone Free Farm
In the Shadow of the Mountains In winter, farmers sink into worn couches, sip tea, and tell stories about summers past. After a decade of farming the high desert outside of Cortez, Colorado, Chuck Barry and Rosie Carter have stories. This winter the story begins with water: for the first time in many years, their […]
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