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The 86-Year-Old Farmer Who Won't Quit

Oct 22, 2014 | 110-part series
Chris Heller

Filmmaker Ivan Cash returns to his hometown in this lovely profile of Howard Quimby, a farmer who lives and works in Marlboro, New York. Quimby has worked the land for seven decades, a lifetime spent cultivating grapes, peaches, tomatoes, sweet corn, blackberries, and raspberries from its soil. Although he's still working in his mid-80s—despite a hip replacement, a knee replacement, and a surgery to repair a fractured vertebrae—he doesn't expect his four children to run the family farm after he dies. As he explains, that doesn't upset him: "Everything comes and goes. When I'm gone, I don't care what happens to it. I can't take it with me. And they say it's not a good idea to try to control something from your death."
Courtesy of Ivan Cash

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