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Life on the land

My favorite book of the summer is Turn Here Sweet Corn, a memoir by organic farmer Atina Diffley. Her husband Martin started delivering vegetables from his family’s land to co-ops in Minneapolis in the early ‘70s, when co-ops were a new idea in Minnesota and few outside resources existed. Martin’s vocation, soon to be shared by Atina, depended on what they knew from their families’ experiences with farming, on what they learned on their own, and of course on the weather.