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ings should be treated. One of the visitors, Miriam Harris of Jordan River Farm, summed up the idea of organic farming, “Cheap food is expensive to the environment; organic food is a help to the environment.”
Mr. Bums grows 25 varieties of tomatoes, ten of lettuce, mesclun (a mix of several different kinds of lettuce, grown together), squash, 12 varieties of hot peppers, edible flowers (nasturtiums and bachelors’ buttons are two), raspberries, and every herb you can think of.
One variety of tomato grown at Goat Hill is the green zebra. Though it remains green, it tastes as sweet as the traditional red tomato, and offers the interesting zebra pattern on its skin for variety. Several cherry tomatoes are grown, and some of them are as tiny as blueberries, looking like little red and yellow jewels in a basket.
Mr. Bums has an extensive irrigation system, and uses water pumped from the Rush River, which runs along the edge of his property. Each row of vegetables is set up with a perforated hose runing along the ground between the plants.
The farm employs seven people, part-time and full-time. The work is nearly year-round because of the spring and winter crops of lettuces.
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