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“It’s easy—you just say no,” Victor Martino told me when I asked him about the pressure from housing developers on farmers in California’s Central Valley. Martino’s family farm, Bella Viva Orchards, is only 100 miles from the Bay Area, where he sells his dried fruits to customers at Ferry Plaza and other popular farmers markets. We Continue reading Snackin’ for a Cause Massachusetts dairy farmers don’t have the land base to expand into 1,000 or 2,000 cow herds, according to Peter Melnik, a fourth-generation dairyman from Deerfield. Instead, he believes diversity is the key to preserving his family’s 250-cow farm. In search of that diversity, Melnik and four other dairies are embarking on a methane digester project with Continue reading Massachusetts Dairyman Turns Manure into Energy and Fertilizer In Fairfax County, Virginia, next to Tyson’s Corner—one of the nation’s biggest malls—is a small farm stand with a green sign reading, “Potomac Vegetable Farms.” Multi-million dollar houses sprout up in surrounding fields, but farm owner Hiu Newcomb, her daughter Hana and their partner Ellen Polishuk have found a way to turn the intensely suburban Continue reading Farming on the Uber-Urban Edge On the outskirts of Wenatchee, a city in the heart of central Washington where golden hills surround endless miles of irrigated fruit orchards, a large apple-shaped sign reads, “Apple Capital of the World.” In a region that ships over 100 million boxes of apples a year around the nation and the world, education has been Continue reading Education Helps Limon and Sons Orchard in Washington Go Natural |
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