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Wallace Currie: "Agroecology has been quietly embedded within island life for generations"

Rural podcaster Wallace Currie recounts the journey he took around his home island the Isle of Arran for a new podcast series focusing on agroecology

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Wallace Currie and Alistair Dobson
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Wallace Currie and Alistair Dobson

As someone born and raised on the Isle of Arran, I have always taken for granted just how connected our food system is. Island food production Growing up at Bridge 51AVÊÓÆµin Shiskine, food production...

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