In many ways, he is a man who never left his Hudson Valley roots, the pastoral surrounds of Peekskill, where his father was a postal worker and part-time truck farmer, where he won a scholarship to Yale.
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Each morning on our weekend visits to Tateyama, our group cycled out of Hakkakuso, passing fields where weekend truck farmers in broad-brimmed sun hats stooped over their rows, planting lettuce, tending turnips or burning brush from the fall rice harvest.
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The area, bounded by 67th and 79th streets to the north and south and by Stony Island Avenue and Lake Michigan to the east and west, was mostly swampland in the 1850s when Ferdinand Rohn, a German truck farmer, utilized trails along the area's high ground to transport his goods to Chicago.
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Ashley J . Forrest doesn't trust his cursive handwriting, so he prints each name laboriously as he moves through unincorporated Palm Beach County's Precinct 24 on April 7-9 . As a result, everybody is perfectly legible, from Maude Holden, 37, the truck farmer, to George Lyman, 44, the nurseryman, to Harley Walker, 28, who has yet another dairy.
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Early one Sunday morning, I wandered into the truck farmers'market on Barra square to smell the perfume of limes, oranges, watermelons, baby tangerines and bananas, miniature apples, grapes, ginger, garlic, chives, onions, shallots, okra, green beans, cucumbers, peppers, gourds, pumpkins, melons, potatoes, prunes, raisins, eggplants, green tomatoes, coconuts, pears, papaya, stalks of sugar cane and carrots as big as a man's forearm.
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At worst, advocates say, the market could be truncated, forcing farmers out; at the very least, they say, the design could keep out the large trucks farmers rely on to bring in the tons of fruits and vegetables that supply not just home kitchens but also 60 to 85 percent of the menus in some of the city's top restaurants in summertime.
