Starting as a one-man operation, short on experience and with modest expectations, Keith Stewart soon found that life on an upstate farm, despite its numerous challenges, suited him better
than the New York corporate grind. Today he has a crew of up to eight seasonal workers and grows about 100 varieties of vegetables and herbs. What began as a yearning to live closer to nature
and to work outside with his body, as well as his brain, soon became a life more full, more varied, often more demanding and exhausting, but always more real. Now, in It's a Long Road to a
Tomato, Stewart presents interlocking essays addressing his midlife development as a farmer, along with some of the how-tos of organic vegetable growing and selling in an urban market.
Stewart includes humorous and philosophical stories about domestic and wild farm animals, as well as insights into the political, social, and environmental issues surrounding agriculture
today and why they matter to all of us.
