Bravo to the Runaway Farmer

Mr. Ableman climbed out the window of his parents’ house when he was 16 and ran away. He was soon managing a 100-acre orchard, and then a 12-acre farm in Southern California, which grossed close to a million dollars. He now farms on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, and travels to Vancouver to oversee urban farms he developed for people coping with addiction and mental illness. They are paid to work the land, and they sell their food to 30 restaurants and at six farmers’ markets.

We went out of our way to give everything to the earth, and the earth gives back to us, said Jack Lazor, who started his organic dairy farm in the 1970s. The earth doesn’t always give cash, though.

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