As this series has progressed, many readers have asked whether the stories were going to be assembled and reprinted in book form, as I eventually did with the series I wrote five years ago on the Lewis and Clark expedition. (Shameless plug: Click here to order a copy of Voyage of Rediscovery: Exploring the New West in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark.)

The answer is Yes. I've been working with the University of California Hansen Trust and the Ventura County Museum of History and Art to produce a coffee-table book about Ventura County agriculture. The text will be based on the stories in "Farming on the Edge" and the book will be lavishly illustrated with scores of terrific photographs shot over the past year in nearly every corner of the local farming landscape.

To learn more about that book, please visit the Web site I built for the project.