DUNGENESS — The fuss is beginning to simmer down now, after the celebration and the presentation of the check.
For their years of toil in the fields of the Dungeness Valley, Nash Huber and his wife, Patty McManus-Huber, last week received an unprecedented prize: the American Farmland Trust’s national Steward of the Land award.
They and their company, Nash’s Organic Produce, are the first Washington state operation to win the honor, which has been bestowed for the past 12 years, and the first organic farmers to take home the $10,000 that comes with it.
In answer to the oft-asked “What’ll you do with the money?” query, Huber said he and Patty might embark on “some kind of agricultural trip,” like the one they took to northern Italy in 2006.
The couple attended the World Meeting of Food Communities in Torino, and then traveled into the countryside, where they met people engaged in the same kind of farming they are.
