David Mas Masumoto works hard both in and out of the fields.
The third-generation Japanese American, whose "Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm" is a perennial favorite, recently published "Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land."
Like earlier titles, this book touches upon themes of home and hope, prosperity and posterity.
Referring to Masumoto as "America's Peach Laureate," something with which I cannot argue, The Seattle Times offers a substantial review:
"His prose is contemplative, disciplined and repetitive in a pleasing way.
"He gives marvelously detailed particulars about farming, especially the hard work of weeding by hand, the continual vigilance for plant diseases and pests, and the precise timing of when to pick the fruit and rush it to market..."
It is worth the read.
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