The King of Green

Prince Charles has been the butt of a lot of jokes, but it seems he has quite a following among the American "food elite." According to an article at nytimes.com, he has his own organic food company (think of a royal version of Newman's Originals) and a farm where he has a 15-acre garden. Here's more:

At the entrance to Home Farm, a short drive from his house, rustic signs proclaim the land free of genetically modified organisms. Rare breeds of British cattle eat red clover. Heirloom ginger Tamworth pigs roll in royal mud. The prince (actually, the prince’s people) grow vegetables from heirloom seeds, and raise organic oats that are baked into the thin, crisp crackers that are the flagship of the Duchy Originals line.

“Given another life, I think he’d have been a farmer,” said David Wilson, the manager of Home Farm.

Who knew?