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The path to healthy food systems is a convergence of many tracks beaten by Indigenous elders, ambitious innovators, eager youth, and patient visionaries. Midwest farmers are in the vanguard with gatherings such as the Marbleseed conference, the region’s premier event for organic agriculture, which took place in La Crosse, Wisconsin Feb, 22-24. Over 1,400 people gathered to share ideas and experience.
Three speakers at the general session gave new energy to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.”
Ben Hartman of Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana related how he went from being a large-scale farmer barely mak...