Benny McLean
What’s it like to be an organic citrus grower? We sat down with Benny McLean, production manager at Uncle Matt’s Organic and Uncle Matt’s father, to find out. Benny has been a part of the citrus industry for almost 50 years, and has been an organic citrus grower for nearly a decade and a half. Here’s what this farmer had to say about life in the groves…
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Edgar Hercila
First-generation American and urban farmer, Edgar Hercila did agriculture development in war-torn areas of Iraq. After leaving the ARMY and coming home, he began growing organic food for inner-city...
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The Perez Family
J&P Organics began with a shattered dream. In 1997, Pablo and his wife, Florencia, were leasing a small raspberry farm. While in full production, a water pump broke. Although they were willing to...
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Charles & Kaye Williams
In the central Texas county of Comanche, roughly 100 miles west of Dallas, lies a 1,300-acre dairy operation belonging to Charles and Kaye Williams. Part of that acreage began as Grandfather Williams’ farm in 1915.
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Otto Kramm
Otto Kramm of Earthbound Farm in Salinas, California, started his farming career as a conventional grower who relied on toxic fertilizers and pesticides to raise his crops. “But it always puzzled m...
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Althea & Matthew Raiford
Gillard Farms is a family-run organic farm, growing under the watchful eye of sibling farmers Althea and Matthew Raiford, who are the sixth generation to farm this land. The farm was first established in 1874 by Althea and Matthew's great great great grandfather Jupiter Gilliard.
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The Mahaffys
You could say that dairying is in Peter Mahaffy’s blood. He studied horticulture in college, thinking that he might try planting fruit trees on the Coos County, Ore. dairy farm that had been in his family since the 1930s, but soon realized that it wasn’t for him. Mahaffy began taking more animal science classes and eventually met Jon Bansen, a dairy farmer who had just joined Organic Valley.
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