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Farmland is disappearing in Maricopa County; meet the coalition working to save it
Meet the coalition working to save disappearing Valley farmland.
and last updated 2020-12-23 09:40:42-05
Last week, ABC15 shared the story of Blue Sky Organic Farms, on the verge of losing the land they lease because it s being sold to development.
David Vose is the farm s owner and says the amount of farmland Arizona is rapidly losing is concerning.
We all assume food s just going to show up from somewhere else and somewhere else now is California and Mexico and other countries, Vose said. And our own ability to feed ourselves is going to be severely limited because we have no long-term planning to make farming an option here. ....

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