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8Restoring Our Farms and Rural Economies

This is where agriculture is going, where we should have been all along. It’s the future. Goddamn. If I was twenty years younger I’d be into buffalo with both feet.

Dick Saterlee, cowboy/rancher/land broker, “a rugged old bastard, six-foot-two and drop-dead handsome at eighty years old,” quoted in Dan O’Brien’s Buffalo for the

Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch, 2001

Almost lost among the more than 7,000 islands of the Philippines is the little 150,000-acre island of Guimaras, with its 130,000 residents. The Azgar family farm sits on a hill in the village of Sebaste, overlooking the tranquil turquoise waters of the Guimaras Strait. The Azgars are among the pioneers of restorative ...

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