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Edited by Josh Ozersky with Daniel Maurer

 

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9/10/07

1:16 PM

Meet the Ultimate Locavore — For One Month, Anyway

So you eat New York State apples and pork from Violet Hill farm. You call yourself a locavore? Manny Howard lived for 30 days on what he grew in his backyard in Brooklyn. Or at least he tried to. But frigid rabbit does, cute ducklings imprinting on him, and the little matter of a tornado all threw obstacles in his path. Meet Manny Howard and his Empire of Dirt in this Grub Street Video.

Related: My Empire of Dirt [NYM]

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