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by Denise Oโ€™Brien

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Denise O'Brien and Larry Harris, unique individuals who chose to remain in their place of birth to be organic farmers. The Harris/O'Brien partnership has lived by the philosophy that "the personal is political", a feminist movement phrase from the 1970s.

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About Denise Oโ€™Brien

An Iowa organic farmer who lives by the 1960s feminist phrase "the personal is political." I was a town girl who grew up and married a handsome dude who declared in 1975 that he was going to be an organic farmer.

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