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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: Farming Community
Description: Farmer of the Year Tom Bros, Live Earth Farm, Watsonville CA
A while ago, I had a consulting contract on the island nation of Cyprus.  The task was to find a crop with an economy sufficient to repopulate an agricultural plateau near the village of Akourdahleia, that had been depopulated by the jobs available in coastal casinos. Â
As I strolled the plateau with my hosts we came upon a village of Greeks happily harvesting their grapes across the way.  Though they were too far away to hear what was being said, we could easily hear their l...