03/11/2012
"Meet The Farmer:" Rise-and-Shine Farms
I just had a series of articles come out in the most recent issue of " Edible Reno-Tahoe " magazine. Here is the first in that series! It is a profile that I did of an organic...
I just had a series of articles come out in the most recent issue of “Edible Reno-Tahoe” magazine. Here is the first in that series! It is a profile that I did of an organic farm just west of Reno, in Fallon, NV. The entire article can be found online or in print if you live in the Reno-Tahoe area. Otherwise, click here!
“I’m worried we don’t have a good story,” Terri Marsh says modestly as we get acquainted and walk across the drive to meet the chickens. “Every farm has a story,” I say. It quickly became evident that Rise and Shine Farms most certainly did have a story.
Driven by a changing economy and a desire to be self-sustaining, Terri and Mike Marsh decided to supplement their professional careers with a market farm on their property just west of Fallon. The Marshes started with a small, 14-person egg community-supported agriculture program (CSA) in 2006. By the next year, they had expanded to a 78-person egg and vegetable CSA. With that, Rise and Shine Farms was born…
Read the rest of the article in the Spring 2012 issue of Edible Reno-Tahoe, click here!