Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 2/13/19

 
Jim Leap fondly recalls the first Early Girl tomatoes he grew at UC Santa Cruz's farm in 1990. Sweet and bursting with flavor, they were raised without a single drop of irrigated water. Nearly three decades later, he remains deeply committed to "dry farming" – forsaking modern irrigation and relying on seasonal rainfall to grow tomatoes, winter squash, potatoes, dry beans and corn on the 4-acre San Juan Bautista farm that Leap and his wife, Polly Goldman, have owned for eight years.

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