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Farming in the Radical Center

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Have you ever savored the ripe fruits or fresh vegetables from land that you yourself had begun to restore perhaps just a few years before? If not, does land restoration seem like an abstract concept with which you have no hands-on experience? Do habitat restoration and species recovery feel like things that happen off in the distance, beyond your sight, your earshot, your taste buds, and your nostrils?

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Nabhan, G.P. (2018). Farming in the Radical Center. In: Food from the Radical Center. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-920-3_3

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