Tom Palley wanted to grow food for people. He was an apprentice with Alan Chadwick at the Garden Project in Round Valley from 75-77. Afterwards, he cultivated gardens at both the methodist church and at home while the years passed and he raised a family. In 88 he bought 10 acres near his house in Round Valley and began farming for market.  Tom said we could use his poem for Alan Chadwick in this bio: "Oh ye of silver hair and tongue, conversing with heaven while standing in dung one moment the gentleman full of charm the next going off like an air-raid alarm. Above your moods your vision towers of a world not at war but covered with flowers, vegetables & herbs, fulfilling mans need and leading him out of the glut of his greed." |