WHY WE GIVE TO CLF.

• Author: Choi, Ellie

"Back home in Korea, my grandfather had a farm outside of Seoul. I remember so vividly his black-and-white dairy cows, the strawberry fields, and the dragonflies. After we immigrated to the U.S., my father also ended up buying a hundred acres in South Jersey. Decades later, I myself 'returned,' so to speak, to the soil, when I started farming our own land in Rhode Island in the potager garden my father built for me on one of his visits to see us.

Humbled by the arduous labor of producing vegetables for our family table, I started to be more conscious of environmental issues and more concerned about the quality of our well water and pollution in the Sakonnet River. I started learning about how to bring...