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'Deeply Rooted' Profiles Farmers Who Refuse to Fit the Agribusiness Mold

By Zane Fischer

Santa Fe Reporter | August 27, 2009

Even though Lisa Hamilton narrows her focus to the extent that Deeply Rooted doesn't capture the breadth that it might have otherwise, she still conveys the raw truth that a positive food future lies in the hands of irascible individuals rather than corporations and captains of industry.

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Tags: agribusiness, Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, Lisa Hamilton, food, farming, nonfiction

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