Summer 2008
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Slideshow:
Fruit of the Land, curated by Mary Winston Nicklin
Articles from this issue:
Locavore: Dr. Pat Elliott: Artisan Cheesemaker One of the many people who make the Piedmont so agriculturally rich.
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o doubt it sounds like an urban legend: A medical doctor with a degree from the University of Michigan decides to practice family medicine in little Rapidan, Virginia. On an outing to one of the myriad regional festivals she comes home with a border collie and starts thinking how she can help the dog fulfill its genetic capability. She solves the conundrum by adding sheep. With the sheep she decided she needed to elevate her amateur dairy-making skills to the next level and enrolled in an apprenticeship program in Wisconsin to become a licensed dairy farmer. This is no fantasy tale but a brief biography of Dr. Read more... |
Through social networking, a filmmaker marries foodies and farmers.
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hen Tom Davenport took over the management of Hollin Farms near Delaplane in the mid 1990’s, he knew he would need to change a lot of things. The farm was losing money. The advice from most agricultural experts was: “get big or get out.” It was hard enough to complete with big Western ranchers and Midwest grain farmers. Now family farms had to compete with Brazilian soybeans and New Zealand lamb. Read more...
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For this successful hi-tech entrepreneur and California transplant, organic farming and restoring the local food chain may be the next new thing.
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hen Sandy Lerner purchased Ayrshire Farm in 1996, the 793-acre, Upperville estate possessed “all the old neglect of prospect.” That poetic, late-18th-Century phrasing is from Jane Austin’s Emma; and spending time with Sandy Lerner, as the magazine’s editors did recently, is to time-travel: not only backwards into an earlier century but also forward into an environmentally conscious, sustainable future.“It was overgrown land,” she says of Ayrshire when she bought it, but Ayrshire enabled her to farm. “I wanted to farm,” she said—not just own land. And by farm, she does not mean what she calls the “industrial production” of most food that is produced in the United States today. Read more... |