Clark Fork Organics

We spent some time visiting Josh's family's farm. As if directing the student work at the PEAS farm as a teacher with the university isn't enough, there's a whole other food race happening at home. It is a business that helps support a family of five, so much like Ploughshare Farm where I worked in MN, efficiency and accuracy are the goal and long, tiring days are the means by which one gets there.






Kim, to whom Josh is married, runs the farm, directs the work of several interns, and juggles a massive amount of harvesting (and everything else) that needs to be done on a regular basis to provide beautiful, healthy food on time to several fine restaurants in town, the Good Food Store, the Saturday Farmer's Market (where EVERYONE goes EVERY weekned), and more.





It's exhausting just talking about it, but seeing their children so involved, mentally and physically in the work, is a good indicator of the positive impacts running a farm can have on people. They understand where food comes from and where it goes, they understand how to get it from point A to point B, and they have been raised interacting with the physical world and the neighboring community in very involved ways...giving them a maturity, intelligence, and appreciation for things well beyond their years.