Girl Out of Water: The Start of It All

Reader Contribution by Maura White
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First of all, let’s just get this straight. I am farming under protest.

I grew up on the beach in Southern California when there actually were sleepy beach towns. We rode bikes to the beach by ourselves in fourth grade, surfed in the mornings before we went to high school or left at lunchtime if there were good waves. We got certified in scuba before we could legally drive a car, and sailed up and down the coast. Being raised in the heart of the hippie generation of the 60’s and 70’s, I was considered to be an earth-mother by my friends. And I really was excited about buying a farm.

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