The Way We Live in Arizona

Diarist Jon Dinsmore is a fourth-generation farmer managing the food safety and planting for TopFlavor Farms, which grows romaine, cilantro, spinach and other leafy greens.

Yuma is known as the winter lettuce capital of the world, thanks to sunny days 92 percent of the year and irrigation waters from the Colorado River. This billboard along I-8 says it all.

You can read the complete month-long diaries in the December/January 2010 issue of Farm & Ranch Living.

 

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