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Local
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The cheap-food boom has been seductively comfortable for us all. Let's face it: Farming is damn hard work, typically done for damnable pay. By relinquishing this burden, by handing the reins to the corporations, we relieved ourselves of a lot of backaches, sunburns, and financial strains. We struck a deal: The agribusinesses got a guaranteed chunk of our income and our full faith in their ability to keep us sustained. In return, we got to pursue lifestyles that don't revolve around soil and toil
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― The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
― The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food
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My first twenty-nine years of life I stayed local. By age thirty-one I was living on the opposite side the world!
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