The organic farming practices of farmer Tom Wadson were featured in the US media on this week.

The Philadelphia Inquirer ? read daily by over 380,000 people ? featured an article about Mr. Wadson titled ?On the Side ? Organic Pennsylvania?s Bermuda angle. The state?s small-farm ethos gains an unexpected foothold on the Island?.

?Instead of bulk-selling his sweet, spring onions ? so crisp and fruity locals eat them like apples ? he ties them in bunches of four for $5,? Inquirer columnist Rick Nichols wrote.

Mr. Wadson was first noticed by the American media at the farmer?s market at Bull?s Head using slogans from the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), it said.

?It was the stickers on his crates that caught my eye,? Mr. Nichols said. ?They announced, ?Pardon Me, I?m Making Food and Saving Farmland.??

Of the last ten farms on the Island, Mr. Wadson?s 35-acre Luke?s Pond, Southampton farm was the largest something it said made him something of a local ?Green Giant?.

The daily newspaper said Mr. Wadson was a member of PASA and employed several farm practices used in the US in Bermuda.

?Nearly every aspect of his operation was informed by the small-farm ethos of rural Lancaster and Bucks Counties,? the Inquirer said.

The supplies Mr. Wadson needed to keep his farm thriving were shipped down to him every month from that part of America, it said, including, ?400 chicks every three weeks from Quakertown,? and chicken processing equipment and organic feed.

Even a half-acre Bermuda onion patch was assisted by a ?weed-flaming rig? from Pennsylvania Dutch country, it said.

?That whole area up there is so in tune with what I do,? Mr. Wadson told the paper.

?There?s also the issue of the Island?s British culinary legacy, which is to say that despite local favourites ? a sherry-laced fish chowder reminiscent of Philadelphia?s snapper soup and codfish-cake breakfasts, loquat jelly and rum cakes for the cruise-ship trade ? Bermuda suffers from gastronomic lag,? it said,

It described how Mr. Wadson was the Island?s ?missionary? for organic farming, had a ten-minute weekly radio show and sold his crop in Hamilton and Southampton. ?He has picked up a few top clients, the elegant Waterloo House Hotel among them,? it said.