![]() ![]() We need to see ourselves as protectors of the soil.” “Women, in particular, as bearers of life, tend to have different perspectives on food, earth and relationships, and we have this strong urge to share it with others. “I talk from who I am and speak from my own truth through the hats I wear: mother, writer, woman, wife and farmer,” Diffley says. Wisconsin has since adopted a similar organic mitigation plan. She also created an organic mitigation plan to protect the soils and certification of Minnesota organic farms. ![]() Like the soil sister she is, she fiercely worked to preserve the earth under her feet, the soil that with tender care gifted her and her community of customers with bountiful, healthy harvests. In Turn Here Sweet Corn, Diffley shares her dramatic story of creating a successful farm operation and the David-versus-Goliath battles she fights along the way, including successfully taking on Koch Industries, an corporate energy conglomerate that aimed to put a crude-oil pipeline on her land. Diffley now takes her mission of advocating for healthy food and soil to a new level with her inspiring memoir, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). ![]() She’s a rock-star farmer who for more than 20 years ran Gardens of Eagan, located in Northfield, Minn., and one of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest. If soil had a sister, someone who passionately stood by and fought for its well-being at all times and at all costs, it would be Atina Diffley. ![]()
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