‘All things Arruda’ farmed in the Ocean State
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June 17, 2019

‘All things Arruda’ farmed in the Ocean State

Farming is very often a family business, with one generation fostering and passing the torch off to the next. For Tony Moniz Jr. this is doubly so. The scion of two royal houses of the Rhode Island dairy community, he seemed destined to follow in

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