Blending Culture and Commerce Patagonia, Arizona Part musical venue, part museum, part restaurant and social gathering spot, La Mision de San Miguel adds a high octane dose of culture, conversation, and commerce to the small rural Arizona town of Patagonia. The iconographic manifestation of a vision of local entrepreneur Cecilia San Miguel, La Mision de […]
Mo’ Better Food and The Mandela Farmers Market
West Oakland, California In 1999, a class-action suit by America’s black farmers won what some called the biggest civil rights award in United States history. The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that the USDA had systematically discriminated against black farmers in awarding loans and other government assistance. The judge estimated that $2 billion […]
Jones Family Farms
Harnessing Customers to Bring in the Harvest Shelton, Connecticut Hailed as one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England by Yankee Magazine, you don’t need to be a farmer to appreciate what the Jones Family Farms — owned by Terry and Jean Jones along with their son, Jamie and his wife Christiana — has […]
Agua Linda
A Seasonal Menu of Farm Experiences Amado, AZ Harvest spring lettuce, wander a corn maze, pick pumpkins, flock with the sheep in the petting zoo. Whatever the season, Agua Linda Farm in Amado, Arizona, offers a buffet of reasons to keep coming back to the farm throughout the year. And that’s just how owner Stewart […]