Essay via New Hampshire Magazine

"Biology shows us that the health of an ecosystem can be measured by its variety of life, or biodiversity. Although modern humans have long sought to exclude themselves from the complex interdependent relationships that comprise the ecosystems we call home, we remain a vital and important piece of this puzzle. In the same way that ecosystems thrive and survive on diversity, our society, and the agricultural systems that keep us fed, flourish when many voices from many backgrounds are given the figurative and literal space to grow."

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