Riverside's Press-Enterprise publishes a story about a couple who have started a new vegetable farm in Winchester, New Hampshire (Adam Gorlick, Associated Press, "Breaking Old Ground: Start-up farmers need patience, creative marketing--and luck," The Press-Enterprise [Riverside, California], Sunday, June 10, 2007, G6). They purchased an old dairy farm, investing nearly a half-million dollars of borrowed money on the gamble that they could find a market for fresh vegetables. They joined the community supported agriculture movement, but have obtained only 20 subscribers, when hoping for 60. Notable quotation, by Jenny Wooster, 36, the wife in the couple: "It's pretty scary when you measure your income in quarters and your outgoing expenses are in the thousands of dollars."
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