Aging farmers looking to retire stumped by lack of buyers for their business

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Like many small farmers around the country, the James siblings in Santa Rosa are growing older and they're finding there isn't anyone willing to take over their fields.

SANTA ROSA -- Right off Santa Rosa's Airport Boulevard is a place where time seems to have stopped decades ago.

"When it's nice and lush and green, you come out here and you can lie down in the furrow and look straight up at the sky and it's absolutely gorgeous," Wayne said. "It's the only way to eat vegetables," Lee said."There's no sense of buying a tomato at the store, it's not a tomato.""Starting with something that tastes really good, you don't have to do much," Wayne said."You just serve it and it not only tastes really well, it has tremendous vitamins and food value."

 

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