Green: A reflection on love and loss through a lifetime relationship with the land

There's an old joke about farming that is as appropriate today as it was when first told. "How do you make a small fortune in farming? Of course, you start out with a large one." I didn't start out with a large fortune but, as with the rest of my family, I had a great deal of determination. Any success I've subsequently had is attributed to being able to stand on the shoulders of those who came before.

Taft Farms, Inc. started with a five-year-old boy on the front lawn with a few veggies on ...