It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life

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Overview

A new edition of longtime farmer Keith Stewart’s deeply personal and highly acclaimed book on the hows and whys of running a small organic farm in 21st century America—updated with five new essays, a foreword by Deborah Madison, and gorgeous new woodcuts by Flavia Bacarella

Keith Stewart, already in his early forties and discontent with New York’s corporate grind, moved upstate and started a one-man organic farm in 1986. Today, having surmounted the seemingly endless challenges to succeeding as an organic farmer, Keith employs seven to eight seasonal interns and provides 100 varieties of fresh produce to the shoppers and chefs who flock twice weekly, May...

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Overview

A new edition of longtime farmer Keith Stewart’s deeply personal and highly acclaimed book on the hows and whys of running a small organic farm in 21st century America—updated with five new essays, a foreword by Deborah Madison, and gorgeous new woodcuts by Flavia Bacarella

Keith Stewart, already in his early forties and discontent with New York’s corporate grind, moved upstate and started a one-man organic farm in 1986. Today, having surmounted the seemingly endless challenges to succeeding as an organic farmer, Keith employs seven to eight seasonal interns and provides 100 varieties of fresh produce to the shoppers and chefs who flock twice weekly, May to December, to his stand at Union Square Greenmarket in Manhattan—the only place where his produce is sold. It’s a Long Road to a Tomato opens a window into the world of Keith’s Farm, with essays on Keith’s development as a farmer, the nuts and bolts of organic farming for an urban market, farm animals domestic and wild, and the political, social, and environmental issues relevant to agriculture today—and their impact on all of us.

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This is not another book of anecdotes encouraging city slickers to begin a pastoral life full of colorful characters. Instead, it is a thoughtful, candid account of one man's experience as an organic farmer. Stewart is no dilettante: he has farmed for almost 20 years and has commented on food issues and farming in the New York Times, Gourmet, and a regional magazine. His essays, written over the last eight years and sometimes recounting earlier stories, show the evolution of his farm and relate his experiences selling produce at New York City's farmers markets. Pieces on growing crops and the antics of animals intermingle with insights into political, social, and environmental issues. As in David Mas Masumoto's Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring, each essay here works as a standalone; some of Stewart's comments also recall Michael Ableman's struggle to farm amid urban sprawl in California (On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm). Nicely illustrated; recommended for all public libraries.-Bonnie Poquette, Boerner Botanical Gardens Lib., Milwaukee Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781569243305
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2006
  • Pages: 276
  • Product dimensions: 7.04 (w) x 7.76 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Meet the Author

Keith Stewart has run Keith’s Farm in Orange County, New York, since 1986. Illustrator Flavia Bacarella, his wife, teaches painting and drawing at Lehman College of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword Deborah Madison xi

Preface to the Second Edition xv

A Change of Life: On Becoming a Farmer 1

Regarding Chickens and Their Eggs 7

Buy It at the Farmers' Market 15

An Apprentice Workforce 21

The Unpeaceable Kingdom 32

Thursday at the Farm 37

Wild Weather 43

Small-Farm Economics-Watching the Bottom Line 48

A Garlic Affair 53

Barn Swallows 61

Organic Certification and the United States Department of Agriculture 66

A Good Knife 71

In Praise of Herbs 76

Farm Dogs 86

Marriage of Body and Mind 93

It's a Long Road to a Tomato 97

The Price of Milk 103

The Hidden Cost of Farming 111

Winter Work 116

Growing Potatoes 123

Kuri Encounters a Porcupine 132

A Day at the Market 137

Brave New Vegetables 144

Putting it Back 151

The Driveway Rabbits 158

Sustainable vs. Organic-Who Loses? 164

Inner Sanctum-An Office with a View 170

A Reversal of Fortune 175

The Unweeded Garden 179

Farms on the Block 188

The Heart of Winter 195

On the Eve of War 203

A Man and His Tractor 205

The High Price of Milk 215

Working Man's Mesclun 222

Tiny Tim and His Bovine Harem 229

Farm Politic 237

Kuri-circa 1985 to 2003 246

Breakdown: Perils of the Truck-Farming Life 258

About Seeds 268

A Beaver before Breakfast 277

The Even Longer Road to a Tomato, or The Rain It Raineth Every Day (Midsummer 2009) 284

What Will Happen to the Land? 294

A Farm in Perpetuity 305

Epilogue 313

Appendix-Keith's Farm Bird List 317

Acknowledgments 319

About the Authors 323

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