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

by Stewart, Keith; Bacarella, Flavia; Madison, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9781615190232
• ISBN10: 1615190236
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-10
• Publisher: The Experiment

Summary

A New York organic farmer presents addresses his mid-life development as a farmer; some of the nuts and bolts and how-to's of organic vegetable growing and selling in an urban market; and some of the political, social, and environmental issues surrounding agriculture today.

Author Biography

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	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
A Change of Life: On Becoming a Farmer	p. 1
Regarding Chickens and Their Eggs	p. 7
Buy It at the Farmers' Market	p. 15
An Apprentice Workforce	p. 21
The Unpeaceable Kingdom	p. 32
Thursday at the Farm	p. 37
Wild Weather	p. 43
Small-Farm Economics-Watching the Bottom Line	p. 48
A Garlic Affair	p. 53
Barn Swallows	p. 61
Organic Certification and the United States Department of Agriculture	p. 66
A Good Knife	p. 71
In Praise of Herbs	p. 76
Farm Dogs	p. 86
Marriage of Body and Mind	p. 93
It's a Long Road to a Tomato	p. 97
The Price of Milk	p. 103
The Hidden Cost of Farming	p. 111
Winter Work	p. 116
Growing Potatoes	p. 123
Kuri Encounters a Porcupine	p. 132
A Day at the Market	p. 137
Brave New Vegetables	p. 144
Putting it Back	p. 151
The Driveway Rabbits	p. 158
Sustainable vs. Organic-Who Loses?	p. 164
Inner Sanctum-An Office with a View	p. 170
A Reversal of Fortune	p. 175
The Unweeded Garden	p. 179
Farms on the Block	p. 188
The Heart of Winter	p. 195
On the Eve of War	p. 203
A Man and His Tractor	p. 205
The High Price of Milk	p. 215
Working Man's Mesclun	p. 222
Tiny Tim and His Bovine Harem	p. 229
Farm Politic	p. 237
Kuri-circa 1985 to 2003	p. 246
Breakdown: Perils of the Truck-Farming Life	p. 258
About Seeds	p. 268
A Beaver before Breakfast	p. 277
The Even Longer Road to a Tomato, or The Rain It Raineth Every Day (Midsummer 2009)	p. 284
What Will Happen to the Land?	p. 294
A Farm in Perpetuity	p. 305
Epilogue	p. 313
Appendix-Keith's Farm Bird List	p. 317
Acknowledgments	p. 319
About the Authors	p. 323
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