Food as Meditation Boulder, Utah · By Rose Houk At dusk on a summer evening, honey-warm light shines from the expanse of windows in the large timber and tin-roofed building. Kids tumble on the lawn out front, and horses graze in lush green grass in the pasture. While people dine in shorts and t-shirts on […]
Three Maples Farm
Finely Tuned to the Market Hebron, Maryland Erroll Mattox grew up in Maryland feeding chickens and working mules on his grandfather’s subsistence farm. He reviled it — got out of dodge as soon as he could. But after 15 years in the city, an epiphany on the virtue of organic farming called Erroll back to […]
Elmwood Stock Farm
If Elmwood Stock Farm were a song, and each family member improvised on a different instrument, then the weekends would sound like the chorus. Cecil Bell raises beef and tobacco, his son John raises vegetables, his son-in-law Mac Stone works off the farm and raises organic livestock with Cecil’s daughter Ann, who additionally markets the […]
Fae Ridge Farm
On Fae Ridge Farm, just outside of Iowa City, Janette Ryan-Busch raises organic vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, goats, sheep, llamas, and angora rabbits. Geese and ducks provide insect control, and chickens help with the decom-position of garden waste. Janette is known locally as the Queen of Basil, raising ten to fifteen thousand basil plants annually. […]
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