Renee & Tim Ward
It has been two years since I moved to Boonville to begin a farming project on Burt Cohen’s original 50-acre Boont Berry Farm property at the edge of town. My project is now called Anderson Valley Community Farm (after a year as Boont Berry Community Farm and frequently being confused for the landlord’s Boont Berry Farm store downtown) and is proudly producing high quality, vegetables, eggs, and meat for local sale and also growing much of the feed for our animals. As a 33-year old from rural West Sonoma County, I took on a big clean-up and development job on the farm in order to get it back on track. Despite the fairly overwhelming situation on the ground and a savings of only a few thousand dollars to begin with, I saw the potential fertility of the land and was overtaken by a strong desire to find a home in a small town community that would support an honest attempt to improve local food security and build community. Combine that with the personal lifestyle dream of an agrarian worker and it should be clear that I invented a dream job for myself.
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