About Flying Tomato

Rebecca Terk, tree-hugging dirt worshiper. Native Vermonter who transplanted herself to Vermillion, South Dakota about fourteen years ago. Also lived in Madison, WI and Mission, SD.

Mom of a fantastic, curious-minded youngster who is up to liking about five or six kinds of raw vegetables (but not tomatoes).

Running a little sustainable agriculture operation just outside Vermillion and raising vegetables, occasionally a few heads of livestock of varying sorts (ducks last year), and (hopefully) community awareness about local food, the environment, and civilized political discourse about the progressive direction we need to head in order to feed ourselves and not cause other peoples to want to harm us.

I grow as many vegetables as I can tend with love. I am mostly a Luddite when it comes to growing food, but I guess if I can deliver a bag of veggies to twenty-one families every week during the season plus supplement the diets of my farmers market customers, then I am doing OK with this strategy. In other words, I don’t claim my way is the right way, I only know that this is the way that gives me the most satisfaction.

When I’m not farming, canning, cooking, or attending/volunteering at community events, I’m teaching English online and writing essays about farming/gardening, environmental concerns, and social issues.  I hold M.A. degrees in both English and history from the University of South Dakota.

I take complete liberty in my blog and in my life to change my opinion partially or completely. To some, that’s known as “flip-flopping”–to me, it’s going on the best available data, thought, and feeling of the time, but leaving room for further consideration and improvement.