For 17 years, Angela Tedesco was owner and operator of Turtle Farm, 20 acres near Granger, Iowa, that was one of the state’s first certified organic CSA farms. She is a founding member of the Iowa Network for Community Agriculture, has served on the board of Practical Farmers of Iowa, and is a contributor to The Future of Fam- ily Farms: Practical Farmers’ Legacy Letter Project, edited by Teresa Opheim. Now retired, she lives in Johnston, Iowa. Her memoir and cookbook, Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture,” was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2022.
