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Meet Laurie Sykes, Organic Farmer

v.
to change a thing or person completely
transformed
And so Laurie Sykes transformed

herself into an organic farmer. “I

concentrated
concentrated on crops local to our

to focus on the thing that you are doing
v.
region. My first crop was very

small. I had to beg the local

farmers’ market to let me sell

there.”

Unit 3 | Meet Laurie Sykes, Organic Farmer