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Gr 9 Up—This comprehensive history of the American organic farm movement features talking head commentary by many of its original founders. Beginning in the 1960s, a small group of California hippies concerned about the ever-growing use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and troubled by Rachel Carson's dire predictions in Silent Spring, began an attempt at farming using only natural methods. Although facing government and food industr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More