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Published February 08, 2008, 12:00 AM

Woodland Trails: Elm trees and a warm fire

“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from a furnace." Not an exact quote from Aldo Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac” but close enough to make a point about what life was like all across the land in the not-so-distant past.

By: Jim Bennett, Hudson Star-Observer

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