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Essex, NY

Summer 2024 - Internships/Fellowships

Echo Farm - From Seed to Service

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I became drawn into the world of sustainable agriculture when I began realizing where my food was coming from. I never gave it a second thought until I recognized the meat I was eating came from a CAFO (confined feeding operation) where animals were pumped with antibiotics and didn't have room to walk, and the vegetables were probably already weeks old, covered in pesticides and chemicals. As I dug more into the realm of agriculture I wondered how a system that’s supposed to ‘feed the world’ is inherently making us all sick.