The celebrated author & farmer David Mas Masumoto drops by to discuss the magic of peaches, surviving the California water crunch, and how a family farmer makes a living in 2021.
David Mas Masumoto is an author and farmer at Masumoto Family Farm in Del Rey, CA.
Industrial agriculture didn’t care about story. The work that I did—the work that Sun Crest [peaches] sort of launched—was, “No, there’s story behind every food that we eat, every bite. And that story is part of the meaning of food. Let’s find out more about that story.”
Notes and references from this episode:
You Won't Believe it's Vegan Pumpkin Pie, by Gena Hamshaw, Food52
Masumoto.com - Masumoto Family Farm
Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community, by David Mas Masumoto
Epitaph For a Peach: Four Seasons on my Family Farm, by David Mas Masumoto
Op-Ed: Feeling the drought on my family farm, by David Mas Masumoto, LA Times
William Saroyan biography, The William Saroyan Foundation
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