Byline: ERIC R. QUINONES Associated Press
NEW YORK Three days a week, Joan D'Attolico rises around 3:30 a.m. and drives nearly two hours into New York City to set up her produce stand at the bustling Union Square farmers market. She usually gets home about 16 hours later.
D'Attolico has run an organic produce farm in Pine Valley, N.Y., with her husband and son for 12 years. They are among tens of thousands of family farmers in the New York area, toiling long hours on land that sometimes has been in their family for several generations.
Whether future generations will continue to till these lands is uncertain
especially with the …
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