It comes from the land...

David of County Line Harvest is an organic specialty farmer who farms six organic acres on the Marin and Sonoma County line. He primarily specializes in greens of all different varieties. He grows an incredible variety of chicories, more than I have ever seen in one place. So I typically go to Jeremy, David's able helper, at the County Line stall for salad mix, mache, their amazing basil, arugula, and, in season, some of their bitter greens. I get eggs there, too. This year David planted strawberries on land that he had not previously farmed. He says this because these strawberries are not only unusually large; these berries are the sweetest the Sunday Civic Center market has to offer. The notion that the soil is an infinite resource and simply needs chemical replenishment to continue to produce is obviously simplistic, but isn't this the basis for so much of the modern agriculture approach. County Line's strawberries are a sweet reminder of how important the land really is and how much of a difference it makes when it is well-managed and allowed to rest.