Having a bunch of dirty-ass surf bums hanging out all day, growing fat-ass veggies? It takes a special sort of landowner to be down with that.”

Shaggy-blond and goateed Wiley Connell is referring to pro surfer Dan Malloy and his wife, Grace, who own the 2.5 acres that Connell leases for Stoke Grove Farm off a quiet, deadend street in Meiners Oaks.