Valley farmer taking on new project with Stanford University

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Will Scott was engaged making the last cuts to this season's broccoli crop.

Even astatine 83 years old, Will's ne'er acold from the fields of his Fresno farm.

"When you find retired what your ngo is successful life, you were enactment present for a reason," helium said. "I recovered retired excessively increasing vegetables was thing I liked."

Scott says accusation he's learned astir farming implicit the years isn't his and it needs to beryllium shared.

Natali Johnson is prepared to travel successful Will Scott's footsteps.

She majored successful Anthropology astatine CSU Monterey Bay but besides sees farming successful her future.

Natali has worked arsenic an apprentice connected Scott's farm.

"Seeing the full process from conscionable barren ungraded and past making beingness and past also, I emotion cooking what I eat," she said. "That's 1 of my favourite things."

Natali volition make seedlings wrong of the greenhouses and assistance tally a caller nutrient stand.

"Working with African-American farmers of California, there's decidedly a large propulsion connected bequest crops," she said.

Will Scott is present moving connected a task to turn those achromatic eyed peas and okra for Stanford University.

"Stanford is 1 of those aureate opportunities that came along," helium said. "They person a programme wherever they are buying from African-American farmers."

For tiny farmers, the process of uncovering a marketplace tin airs large challenges.

"If you're going to beryllium a farmer, you request to person immoderate contracts up of clip truthful you cognize you person immoderate benignant of assurances you'll beryllium compensated," Scott said.

Come June, staff, students and visitors to Palo Alto volition bask a sensation of the Valley consecutive from Will Scott's farm.

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