tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post639714027508798386..comments2024-03-28T02:29:13.507-07:00Comments on Legal Ruralism: Small Southern farmers in fiscal peril after wet autumnLisa R. Pruitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171420941776673660.post-35596319922738694072009-12-01T00:31:18.793-08:002009-12-01T00:31:18.793-08:00The many references to family farms and attachment...The many references to family farms and attachment to place remind me of a book I read in college - <i>Epitaph of a Peach</i>, by David Mas Masumoto. Masumoto studied sociology at UC Berkeley and received a master's degree in community development from UC Davis, but returned home to Del Rey, CA to farm the family land as a third-generation farmer. Much of the "farming is in the blood" and "you don't want to be the generation that loses the family farm" sentiments are in Masumoto's book, which documents his struggle to save his family's organic grape and peach farm in the midst of a changing agricultural industry. Click <a href="http://www.masumoto.com/literary/books/epitaph_peach.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a><br />to visit Masumoto's website.LThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647088423654517157noreply@blogger.com