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With no successor to till the land, organic farm's days numbered


Kris B. Mamula
Associated Press
ROCHESTER, Pa. (AP) – Ten years of planning, ten years of want ads and hope and worry ended one day in October when Don Kretschmann realized it wasn t going to work; no one was going to step in.
This was going to be the last harvest at Kretschmann Family Organic Farm.
Come spring, the Beaver County farm will be idle for the first time since he first turned the soil there in the spring of 1979. Mr. Kretschmann is retiring after failing to find someone to take over his 80-acre operation.
I just thought somebody would come, the 71-year-old self-taught farmer said. Nothing worked out there unless some miracle happens. ....

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Retired Kretschmann owners ponder future of Beaver County farm


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Retired Kretschmann owners ponder future of Beaver County farm
Retired farmer Don Kretschmann is considering “hundreds” of new inquiries to take over his family’s produce operation, while daughter Maria Kretschmann plans to launch an initiative helping people of color break into farming.
NEW SEWICKLEY TWP. Maria Kretschmann wants to share her family’s time-honored Beaver County farmland with historically disadvantaged growers.
By this time next year, the daughter of Kretschmann Family Organic Farm owner Don Kretschmann hopes to connect local people of color with the land, transportation and equipment necessary to foster agricultural success. 
“I’ve been thinking about my privilege for a while,” she said. “I also feel like ownership of land is just human hubris. We don’t own nature, so it should be shared with whoever connects with the land.” ....

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