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January: a time to review the past year and plan for the future

By Mary-Howell Martens (with Klaas’ help!), Lakeview Organic Grain Originally posted on January 2, 2003 Years ago, when I was a young child growing up in the suburbs of Long Island, my grandmother gave me a beautiful picture book called … Continued

How Mary-Howell and Klaas Martens made the transition to organic

By Mary-Howell Martens, Lakeview Organic Grain Originally posted August 2002 “I wish you didn’t have to do that!” I was standing by the kitchen door, several months pregnant with our second child, as I watched my husband, Klaas, leave the … Continued