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Peninsula Couple's Pie Ranch Teaches Community Farming, Mentors Aspiring Farmers

A Pescadero couple who started with a pie-in-the-sky idea is making a difference in food and farming on the San Mateo County coast.

(CBS Bay Area)

August 25, 2022

A Pescadero couple who started with a pie-in-the-sky idea is making a difference in food and farming on the San Mateo County coast.

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Nancy Vail and Jered Lawson's story begins at a barn dance at an eco-farm conference about 20 years ago.

"We were actually dancing with two hands together," Vail said. "And the caller looked at us and said, 'Dance like you mean it,' That was the beginning of like, 'Okay, you're my person.' And the next day, we were talking about wanting to start a farm together, and have children, and so, we wasted no time."

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