Arthur T. Johnson

Art Johnson moved to a farm near the little town of Darlington, in northeastern Maryland with his family in 1972, after serving with the US Army in Vietnam and working for a year at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. The family farm, now known as SweetAire Farm, started with a house and 5 acres and now comprises 49 acres. About 20 of these are devoted to fruit grown with organic methods. For many years, his family kept cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese on the farm, and raised these...See more

Art Johnson moved to a farm near the little town of Darlington, in northeastern Maryland with his family in 1972, after serving with the US Army in Vietnam and working for a year at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. The family farm, now known as SweetAire Farm, started with a house and 5 acres and now comprises 49 acres. About 20 of these are devoted to fruit grown with organic methods. For many years, his family kept cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese on the farm, and raised these animals for their own use as well as to sell to others. He began selling fruits at the Bel Air Farmers' Market in 1982 and has been participating continuously for ever since. He is now retired from the University of Maryland and devotes his full time and energy to the many jobs around the farm. He likes to experiment with new fruits, and has made available to his farmers' market customers a wide range of fruits not commonly found elsewhere at local farmers' markets. He operates SweetAire Farm with his wife, Cathy, who is also retired from the Harford County Library system. They send out a very popular weekly email about farm activities to about 500 people, some of whom resend it to friends and relatives around the US and in the world. Many of the stories in this book originated from these weekly messages. See less