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 Stories About: food and agriculture AND industrial ag AND sustainable ag AND Victual Reality
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Dishing It Out
My address to the Southern Appalachian Youth on Food conference |
Tom Philpott |
08 Mar 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| One crop to rule them all. Photo: USDA Tucked into the rolling hills of North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, Warren Wilson College is essentially surrounded by a farm. The school's 800 students not only tend the 275-acre farm -- which includes pastured livestock and vegetables -- they also provide the labor to run the campus. They do everything from accounting to plumbing to cooking in the ca ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, industrial ag, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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