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Marian Biodynamic Farms
Written by Claude Deville
Marian Farms is an eighty-acre, diversified, Demeter certified Biodynamic® farm in California’s central San Joaquin Valley, an area referred to as the “fruit basket” of the United States. This fertile valley is known around the world for its rich, sandy loam soils and Mediterranean climate. In this farming paradise, Gena Nonini grows grapes, almonds, lemons, oranges, peaches, and a wide variety of row crops, many of which are heirloom varieties.
From their grapes, Marian Farms produces sun dried raisins, and several high-proof spirits including an extraordinary California-style Curacao, Pisco, and Espirito de la Valada, their signature brandy, all on their on-site distillery. Marian Farms also sells their produce to natural foods stores around the country, to restaurants and foodservice accounts, and direct to consumers in their online store and through their CSA.
Gena Nonini 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 to which Gena still devotes half of her acreage. While working as an export commodity trader with a Fortune 500 company visiting Australia and New Zealand, Gena was introduced to Biodynamic agriculture and was so impressed with both the foods and people she met that she decided she wanted to farm Biodynamically.
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