One of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest, the Diffleys’ Gardens of Eagan helped to usher in a new kind of green revolution in the heart of America’s farmland, supplying their roadside stand and a growing number of local food co-ops. In telling her story of working the land, coaxing good food from the fertile soil, Atina Diffley reminds us of an ultimate truth: we live in relationships-with the earth, plants and animals, families and communities.Ī memoir of making these essential relationships work in the face of challenges as natural as weather and as unnatural as corporate politics, her book is a firsthand history of getting in at the “ground level” of organic farming. The romance of farming washed away a long time ago, but the love? Never. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds the eleven-inch rainfall (“that broccoli turned out gorgeous”) the hail disaster of 1977. Writing her book is a wake-up call to the real state of our nationalįood supply and why corporate farming and the application of toxicĪtina Diffley now educates consumers, farmers, and policymakersĪbout organic farming through Organic Farming Works, the consultingīusiness she owns with her husband.When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. Of the entrepreneurial spirit that overcomes obstacles to build a farm,Ī family, and a living legacy of legal protections for organic farming.Ī gifted writer, Diffley brings fire, passion, and poetry to her Manual of organic farming practices, a legal thriller, and a celebration Who falls in love with a big-hearted farming man it's also a Proposed by the notorious polluters Koch industries.ĭiffley's inspiring book tells the story of a single mother Inches, and the loss of family farmland to the encroachment of suburbia.īut their biggest challenge was yet to come: the threat of eminentĭomain for a crude-oil pipeline slated to run through their land,
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