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Soon, for the first time, Winona will decide whether to continue supporting the compost site by your sewage plant or your Winona Farm community service compost site, which has been open every day from dawn until dark since 1990. Healthy living soil is the foundation for healthy life. The dwindling numbers of birds, bees, bats and butterflies are the canaries in the mines. Most look at the foods for healthy soil as stuff to burn, bury or landfill. This 175-acre farm, at the junction of one-plus miles of East and West Burns trout streams, is a rural oasis protected from Winona’s 27,000-plus and the 300 homes in Valley Oaks by 500-foot bluffs and from development by the Minnesota Land Trust and an ideal place to demonstrate Winona’s healthy cycle of life. ....