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Neighbors and employees gather to make sure the Ernie's Organics
potato harvest is pulled off.
From left, Cooper Brossy, Fred Brossy and Jesse Human during the 2018
potato harvest. For years, Jesse and his father Kelly Human have taken time
off from their day jobs to help the Brossys with harvest.
get a start for themselves in farming," he says. "They can be successful at
this if they aren't hung up on the way they were taught to farm as being
the only way.
"I don't consider myself a potato grower so much as I consider
myself an organic farmer who happens to grow potatoes," he continues.
"Organic farming is a biological system, much more than just input
substitution. We can't buy more farmland around us; we're kind of
hemmed in by lava fields here. So we've got to make the land we farm
better. It feels pretty good to know that thanks to the conservation
easement, this place will remain a farm forever."
For a little piece of heaven, that's a pretty good deal.
Cooper Brossy's daughter Fiona munches on Austrian
winter peas in a cover-cropped field.
