I’ve known Dan Tawczynski—Farmer Dan as he’s universally known around here—for years, ever since I spent summers volunteering at the animal rescue shelter attached to his farm. Farmer Dan, longtime and proud owner of Taft Farms in Great Barrington, has been cultivating land one way or another since he was a kid. Back in 1961, he and his brother, Stanley, who has since passed, purchased 85 acres to start the farm; these days, with his son Paul at the helm, it’s still a family business, spanning nearly 200 acres. Not surprisingly, more than six decades of working the soil, Farmer…
