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David Mas Masumoto

David Mas Masumoto
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David Mas Masumoto

David Mas Masumoto is an organic peach and grape farmer who works with his wife, Marcy Masumoto, and their two children, Nikiko and Korio, on their 80-acre farm just outside Del Ray, 20 miles south of Fresno, CA. He has a bachelors degree in sociology from U.C. Berkeley and a masters degree in community development from U.C. Davis. He is a columnist for The Fresno Bee, has written for USA Today and The Los Angeles Times, and has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine and New York Times. His farm has been featured Sunset, Country Living, and Glamour Magazines and on television as part of the California Heartland PBS series as well as the... Read full bio

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Anthology asks, ‘What’s the West?’ Some of region’s best writers ponder question
Missoulian, October 30, 2011
...generations have both tamed and succumbed to in the quest for more open spaces. The West is, as David Mas Masumoto claims, "dirt worth fighting for." In this thick, rich volume, we're treated to essays and poems by, among others, Rick Bass, Larry...
DAVID MAS MASUMOTO: Old Shovels, Old Friends
Fresno Bee, November 27, 2011
..._ I say goodbye to a dear friend in the late autumn: I put away my old farm shovel for the winter. I wipe off the dirt and dust and pause to think of what we went though this past year. A nice cold winter. Heavy late winter and spring rains that resulted...
DAVID MAS MASUMOTO: Lessons learned on a tractor
Modesto Bee, November 25, 2011
...Eastern Europe and during their lush green springs. Drawing by SW PARRA of a 3-wheeled tractor for a David Mas Masumoto essay - Fresno Bee -...
Gary Hart Named Board Chairman of Public Policy Institute of California
Noozhawk.com, November 9, 2011
...director of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities; Donna Lucas, CEO of Lucas Public Affairs; David Mas Masumoto, author and farmer; Steven Merksamer, senior partner at Neilsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Gross & Leoni LLP; Kim Polese,...
Farmers' Roundtable
KCET, November 7, 2011
...in the Creative Seeds series . The panel, which includes Abby and Jason Harned from Three Sister's Farms, David Mas Masumoto from Masumoto Family Farms, and Doug and Marnie Powell from Powell Farms, will explore how our relationship with food is shaped...
Persevering and Growing on the Farm
Zócalo Public Square, May 24, 2011
...David “Mas” Masumoto operates an 80-acre peach, nectarine and grape farm near Fresno. He has written several books about life on a farm and his organic farming techniques are used at...