I don’t know the family, I didn’t know this gentleman but these are the people who we should celebrate MORE in Chester County.
We need to celebrate our real farmers who just get out there and do their thing to make all of our lives better without glam shots on tractors they don’t own and expensive publicists.
People whom I know described Fred de Long as an amazing man who contributed so much.
Requiescat in pace Mr. de Long.
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/paoli-pa/conrad-delong-12211535
Fred de Long, longtime director of the community farm program for the Willistown Conservation Trust, has died at 55
They lovingly called him Farmer Fred, and he turned Rushton Farm in Newtown Square into a national model of community supported agriculture.
by Gary Miles
Published Feb. 21, 2025, 3:34 p.m. ET