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As Marika Josephson waxes lyrical about small farms, caring for the community, protecting regional agriculture and finding abundance in unlikely places, she sounds more like a philosopher than a beer brewer. In fact, she is both. Josephson, who is a partner in Scratch Brewing Company in Ava, Illinois, also has a Ph.D. in philosophy. It was, in fact, graduate school that brought Josephson and her husband to southern Illinois from New York. Josephson’s business partner, Aaron Kleidon, on the other hand, was born and raised here. During high school, Kleidon earned money finding and selling wild ginseng and goldenseal plants, which gave him an early appreciation for what could be harvested from the area’s forests. Kleidon did slip away for a while, moving to Chicago. He studied photography and, in Chicago, had the opportunity to explore historical photo printing, including nonsilver and older techniques. “I got paid to experiment,” he says. After Chicago, Kleidon mov

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