Growing Rogue: One Farmer's Search for an Agriculture the World Can Live With

Growing Rogue tells the story of Scott Park s journey from first-generation farmer, starting in 1974 with no ag background (or money, equipment, or connections), to a Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) steward of 1,700 acres on twenty-seven fields, growing twenty different crops in the Sacramento Valley of California. Scott s life story includes both tragedy and triumph as a farmer who shook off the shackles of chemical use and developed a holistic farm system.Park s method is an anomaly in that it competes successfully in California s industrial agriculture environment, growing high-value crops (processing tomatoes, fresh market melons and squash, and many more), all using just four inputs that improve each acre every year: cover crops, compost, microorganisms, and seaweed.Growing Rogue comprises three sections. In Section 1, 'The Clone,' Scott describes his early years as a farmer, when he mimicked his neighbors practices because he had no knowledge of how to grow processing tomato