David Mas Masumoto, organic farmer, author, Wisdom of the Last Farmer, Harvesting Legacies from the Land (Free Press/Simon and Schuster 2009), Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring (Norton, 2002); Harvest Son (Norton, 1999); Epitaph For A Peach: Four Seasons On My Family Farm (HarperSan Francisco, 1995, 1996), winner, Julia Child Cookbook Award for Best Literary Food Writing, Critic’s Choice Award from the San Francisco Review of Books. Other books include Heirlooms (Heyday Books, 2007) and Letters to the Valley (Heyday Books, 2004).

See www.masumoto.com