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Grain. Vegetables. Fruit. Energy. I was starting to sketch out a blueprint for the future of Big Sandy and the revitalization of rural America. But I still had one piece of unfinished business. I couldn’t stop thinking about Corn Nuts.
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Quinn, B., Carlisle, L. (2019). Bringing Rural Jobs Back. In: Grain by Grain. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-996-8_13
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