We're your neighbors. The farm is owned and operated by Melanie and George DeVault, journalists who discovered that they love working with soils, plants and people as much as they do with words.
Both Ohio natives, the couple moved to Emmaus from Pompano Beach, Fla., in 1981 with their two small children. Melanie was a reporter at The Miami Herald, George an assistant city editor at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
George was editor of Rodale's New Farm magazine for 10 years. Since 1991 he has managed Rodale's gardening and farming magazine in Russia. (The family lived in Moscow for a year in 1993-94.) Since becoming a Food and Society Policy Fellow last fall in a program funded by the Kellogg Foundation (www.foodandsocietyfellows.org), he works half-time for Rodale. George joined the Emmaus Fire Dept. in 1982 and retired as deputy chief in January. He is still a firefighter in Vera Cruz. He is on the board of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture.
Melanie worked as a reporter for The Morning Call and The East Penn Press when it was located in Emmaus. She was editor of The Parkland Press before becoming a full-time farmer. In addition to her journalism studies at "the Big Farm" (Ohio State University), she studied fruit science and horticulture at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa. Melanie just finished her second term as president of the Lehigh County Extension Board of Directors and is still active in local organic agriculture. She freelances for Rodale and the Rodale Institute's new web site NewFarm.org, where her columns on raising cut flowers are #1. In our spare time, we have edited and published six books on farming and market gardening since 1991. George is writing another one now.
Our 25-year-old son Don worked last summer at Oak Hill Farm, a 700-acre organic farm in Glen Ellen,CA. He and his dog, Japhy, returned in January to help manage the veggies this year.
Daughter Ruth, 23, is also back home. Between her job and boyfriend, we don't see much of her. But her name already tops the list of designated blueberry pickers this summer because she will pick no berry before its time.

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