![]() “It’s so good for surrender, for control personalities,” she said. Life on a farm has always lived at the intersection of hard work and faith, and Molly Chester said there is a lot to be learned in that space. as a docu-series director and a personal chef, respectively - and have spent the last eight years turning the dry, nutrient-depleted dirt of a former horse ranch into a self-sustaining, biodynamic 213-acre farm that produces fruit and vegetables for some of L.A.’s trendiest restaurants and freshly laid eggs that sell out in minutes at local farmers markets, and embraces topsoil practices that are said to help combat climate change. John and Molly Chester are living that dream: They left behind their day jobs in L.A. (It’s enough of a fantasy that ABC has a prime-time comedy with that very premise, called “Bless This Mess.”) Located 40 miles north of Los Angeles in Ventura County, Apricot Lane Farms symbolizes what so many of us daydream of doing: ditching city living, a monotonous desk job and commuter headaches for a back-to-basics lifestyle, say, on a farm. At 6:30 every Monday morning, the 60-member team at Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark gathers around a campfire in the vegetable garden to discuss what happened over the weekend - maybe a lamb was born, or thousands upon thousands of ladybugs made their seasonal return to the rows of fennel - and what’s on the agenda for the week ahead. ![]()
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