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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“The soil is the organic grower’s capital. Invest all you can in the soil,” John Bums, president of the Virginia Association of Biological Farmers, told his audience at last week’s First Friday program at the county library.
Tile program was jointly sponsored by the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection and the VABF.
Besides Mr. Bums, panelists included Richard and Joyce Abell and Jim and Sally Mello of Rixeyville.
Mr. Bums owns Goat Hill Farm outside Washington. He grows small vegetables, which he said are sometimes called “yuppie vegetables,” and raspberries. He markets his produce and that of neighbors by taking it to Washington, D.C., in season. t “Organic growing is a way of positively affecting the environment,” he said. “You work in harmony with nature and don’t try to dominate it. . . You want to leave a piece of the earth better off than when you found it. We don't own the land. We are temporary caretakers for those who come after us.”
The Abells told of growing asparagus and raspberries on their land on the Shade Road. They market their produce to area restaurants and health food
See Organic, Page A-8
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