Linda Illsley, local chef and owner of Cocina Linda, once asked me why I farm. I couldn’t come up with an immediate answer. There are a million ethical reasons to be a small-time, diverse farmer. The veggies at the grocery store are laden with systemic pesticides, fungicides, antibiotics, herbicides and fertilizers, the land they are grown on is eroded, low in fertility and biodiversity, the watershed is contaminated with nitrogen run-off and pesticides, the farm workers may not be fairly

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