A few years ago my wife, Jana and I found ourselves approaching our late forties, feeling like our late fifties and, in my case, looking like my late sixties. We resolved to start eating better and turned to organic food to try and stave off getting old any faster than we had to. We immediately noticed a difference both in our enjoyment of the food and the way we felt. On those few occasions when we would eat something processed, Jana especially noticed the adverse effect it had on how she felt.
         Still, the improvement we felt left something to be desired so we began to research how food, both conventional and organic, is produced. What we learned convinced us that if we were going to have the kind of food we were seeking, we would either have to grow it ourselves or find a local producer we could trust and buy directly from him.

My childhood was spent on a dairy farm and I never really got farming out of my blood and Jana’s education is in animal nutrition so we decided to buy a small farm and thus Running Water Farms was born (so named because we have an irrigation canal traversing our land that holds water only during our short growing season. When there’s running water, we can farm).