Is there a filtering process that allows only exemplary people to take up organic farming?
We have travelled around the country interviewing farmers, probably more than twenty, and after every meeting we say the same thing: what great people. The fact is that despite the times we live in which promote shock and alarm, we find our hope factor accruing geometrically with each new farmer that stands before our camera lens. So here we go again: John Bliss and Stacey Brenner lease Broadturn Farm in Scarborough, Maine from a Farm Trust. Their farm supplies CSA shares to 100 people, and they have a waiting list of nearly double that. Neither Stacey nor John grew up on a farm; Stacey lived in urban Philadelphia and John’s childhood was spent in Wellesley, MA. Like their peers, they came to agriculture by following their instincts toward a purposeful life. John said his real love was eating well. It’s fortunate, he commented, that it turned out he liked the farming life because he leaped into it without much forethought other than he would eat the best food and find a community of li
