Seasons of Chino Farm
Growing up among rows of purple haze carrots, delicate Mara des Bois strawberries and corn sweet enough to eat raw, Makoto Chino might have been one of the best-fed kids in America.
He would see celebrated chefs like Julia Child and Alice Waters visiting his family's Southern California farm and learning from his father Tom Chino about the painstaking attention to quality and experimentation.
Clouds gather over recently planted fields on the Chino family farm.
Farmer Tom Chino jumps off a growing rack in the green house of his family's farm.
Tom Chino plants Yuchoi Sun transplants.
Workers plant vegetable seedlings.
Young lettuce grows in morning light.
Makoto Chino looks out over his family's farm at dusk.
A Japanese cucumber flower grows.
Yellow and green zucchini are shown for sale.
Lettuce grows in a green house.
Radishes are bundled for sale.
Albion strawberries grow on the farm.
Makoto Chino bites into a purple haze carrot.
Makoto Chino organises the morning harvest.
Makoto Chino and his dad Tom wash off freshly picked vegetables.
Makoto Chino pulls a flat of freshly picked vegetables with an all-terrain vehicle.
Tom Chino works at the farm’s vegetable stand.
Farmer Tom Chino looks over the vegetables tattooed onto the arm of chef Sean Brock.
Farmer Tom Chino and his son Makoto head off to work on the family's farm.
