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My husband Peter and I lease租借 a land for organic farming in the foothills山麓小丘 of Northern California.

In the heat of summer, my fields cover the bronzed古銅色的，青銅色 landscape風景，景色 like a green quilt被子，被褥 spread over遍布在..., 復蓋在 sand沙子.

We mind the requirements需要；有賴於 for organic farming and successfully get certificates證書；證明 for all our vegetables.

Ten acres英畝（＝4047平方米或4840平方碼） of them trace找到，查出，發現, 追查 the contours輪廓；外形；曲線, （地圖上的）等高線 of a small valley floor.

Tomatoes glow容光煥發 crimson深紅色的, 深紅色, flowers bloom and watermelons grow fat.

But the beautiful picture does not overrule（指有權威的人）否決，駁回 the reality that my business is struggling.

Whenever a customer asked how things were going, I replied, Great.

I never revealed the truth, Well, we're making ends meet使收支相抵；勉強維持生計, but we work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, and pay ourselves only what we need to cover food and household expenses: $100 per week.

I didn't tell anyone how, over the course of the last three years since Peter and I had started our farm, I'd drained疲憊不堪，累極 most of my savings積蓄，省下的錢.

I didn't admit that the only thing keeping the farm afloat漂浮的, 有償債能力的；經濟上周轉自如的 was income Peter and I earned through other means — Peter working as a carpenter木匠；木工 and I as a baker.

I didn't say I felt like I was trying to fill a bathtub when the drain was open.

People admire欣賞；羨慕, 欽佩；讚賞 organic farming, but they seldom know it's hard to sustain保持，維持 a living.