The People
Gena Nonini, land steward, is the third generation of her family to farm the Marian Farms property. Her grandfather came to Fresno in 1900 from the Swiss Alps in Northern Italy. He was a dairy farmer and grape grower. His son was also a grape grower, a tradition Nonini continues and devotes half of her acreage to. While working as an export commodity trader with a Fortune 500 company, Nonini traveled the Pacific Rim extensively.On one of her business trips to Australia and New Zealand, she learned about Biodynamic agriculture and was so impressed with both the foods and people she met that she decided she wanted to farm Biodynamically. In 1990, Nonini set up her own company and started her transition to farming, eventually trading in her business suit for denims.
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