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"Five homeschoolers pick fist-size garlic cloves, green jalapeños,
strawberries, squash and kale on a breezy Thursday morning in late June.
They’re volunteering at a local food garden where bright orange marigolds
attract bees from a local keeper’s hive.
The one-acre garden has yielded about 10,000 pounds of produce for six food
pantries since it began harvesting in April 2022. Texan by Nature, which
manages the garden and was founded by former First Lady Laura Bush, estimates
it has served approximately 2,000 people per month in Limestone, Freestone and
Leon counties.
Located in Freestone County about 60 miles east of Waco, NRG Dewey Prairie
Garden is a part of a massive effort to restore a 35,000-acre lignite coal
mine, which stretches mainly into the town of Jewett and used to fuel NRG’s
Limestone Electric Generating Station, a 1,688-megawatt power plant. An NRG
spokesperson said the coal plant began running on cleaner-burning coal from
Wyoming in 2016.
That’s when the company halted mining locally after more than three decades."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
