from The Patriot Ledger

At dawn, a crescent moon hangs in a blue sky and, in the middle of residential Milton, there’s a farmer in the dell. Tim Cooke has transformed a large patch of poison ivy into an organic tomato field. A deer and her two fawns watch as he pedals his own eco-friendly invention, a “foot-powered tractor,” to cultivate the rows. At age 45, Cooke is a freelance farmer. (Read the full story here.)