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Your June 15, 2006 edition
suggested that David Cole has recently decided to leave Rappahannock County. In fact, he began planning his departure when the County Board of Supervisors rejected plans for headquartering his charitable programs on a 60 acre parcel adjacent to the Tbwn of Washington in the summer of 2002. This action blind sided him, since the county planning commission had enthusiastically endorsed his plans earlier that summer. Although he immediately began to search for a new home for his applied research programs in sustainable agriculture, his legacy lives on here in Rappahannock.
Consider the following:
He was a founding member of The Dupont Farmer’s Market/Fresh Farm Markets in Washington, D.C. which has now expanded to many other locations in and around the metro DC area and features producer only produce, fruit, poultry, flowers, and beef. The farm continues to participate in this market as well as others by way of the Sunnyside Institute, the non-profit educational arm of Sunnyside Farms.
Sunnyside Farms and the Sunnyside Institute are founding members of the Rappahannock County High School Farm To Table Program. This program enables local High School students to work with local farmers to pass on our agriculture knowledge — knowledge critical to preserving our local heritage. Food grown by the students and donated by local fanners is contributed to the Rappahannock County High School Culinary Arts program which in turn creates and provides meals to the local Meals On Wheels Program;
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