Organic peach and grape farmer and columnist for The Fresno Bee. Books:
"Letters to the Valley"; "A Harvest of Memories"; "Four Seasons in Five
Senses"; "Things Worth Savoring"; "Harvest Son"; "Planting Roots in
American Soil"; "Epitaph For A Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm".
"Epitaph" won the 1995 Julia Child Cookbook Award.