Sam Cantrell has quite a conservation center on his family farm of 60 Acres, 7 in produce. Initially, his family farmed the property on a “homesteading” basis and later the fields were rented to tenant farmers who were conventional corn growers. In 1986 it was entered into the Conservation Reserve Program, and the family agreed to keep the fields out of production for at least ten years. In 1995 Sam began growing vegetables. He sees labor and recruiting young farmers back to the land as the biggest challenge for today’s farmers.
You’ll see that his own row design flows well with the land. It’s as though an artist developed these fields.
