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Martha Stewart digs CSA farmerMasterson nominated for entrepreneurial woman award
By Patty Mamula
For the Capital Press
At the height of the growing season last summer, farmer Laura Masterson was working from dawn to dark tending tomatoes, picking cucumbers and moving irrigation lines.
"Out of the blue, my sister called," Masterson said. "She and my mother and aunt had nominated me for a Martha Stewart award."
She said that she thought that was nice, but quickly returned to the mountain of chores facing her that day at her community-supported agriculture operation.
Then one week before her wedding on Sept. 19, she received a call from New York. Masterson discovered she was a finalist for the 2008 Martha Stewart Dreamers Into Doers award for women who develop community-minded projects.
"I didn't realize how big this Martha Stewart thing was until after the fact," Masterson said. Of 2,000 applicants, she
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