A central Missouri vegetable grower is the MOSES Organic Farmer of the Year. Liz Graznak and her partner founded Happy Hollow Farms in Moniteau County, Missouri almost a decade ago.
“It’s pretty amazing. I can’t really wrap my mind around it because in the time that I’ve been growing and the farmers that I know who have received this award, they’re like the stalwarts in the organic farming community.”
She says working as general manager of a Columbia, Missouri garden center gave her the business training she needed to be successful, but, she tells Brownfield Ag News, “I vastly underestimated the amount of money that would be required to build infrastructure and buy equipment and get a farm up and going.”
Graznak says cover crops are a very big part of their eight-acre operation, “We use cover crops the same way conventional farmers use fertilizer.
