{"id":447,"date":"2010-06-29T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/food\/?page_id=447"},"modified":"2017-10-10T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:33:53","slug":"sustainable-produce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/alumni\/sustainable-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable produce: Steve Hoad ’72"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steve Hoad ’72 poses at Emma’s Family Farm in Windsor in 2008. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

Blind from birth, Steve Hoad was raised by a mother who \u201cunderstood that children were children,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was expected that I would do things children do.\u201d His outdoors experiences as a child and a desire to conserve land solidified Hoad\u2019s dream to one day live with his family on a farm.<\/p>\n

Today, on Emma’s Family Farm in Windsor, Hoad and daughter Rose sell vegetables from a stand and include rare heirloom breeds among the chickens and turkeys they raise for customers\u2019 holiday tables.<\/p>\n

And to the Hoads, \u201cgood food\u201d and \u201chigh prices\u201d needn\u2019t be synonymous.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a really basic philosophy that says everybody has a right to good food, and everybody, if they want, should know where their food comes from,\u201d Steve explains. \u201cThat philosophy includes helping out wherever we can, keeping our prices low, and at the same time, protecting the earth that gives us the food that we need.\u201d<\/p>\n