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Spanish farmers visit U.S. to share vision of better farming

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Crystal Johnson, deputy executive director of Just Food, of The Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley, based in Batavia, was the tour-guide for two farmers from Spain visiting the Fox Valley December 12 and 13. The farmers Javier Fatas and Luis Perez- Portillo came to the U.S. at the...

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Tour bridges urban-rural gaps to conservation farming

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By Kay Shipman, FarmWeek Stepping outside comfort zones and into no-till fields, prairie habitat and organic crops can break down misperceptions about farm conservation in northeast Illinois. That was one of the goals for a Will County conservation tour on June 24 organized by the Chicago Wilderness, a regional alliance...

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