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Ajo CSA teaches next generation Indigenous farmers sustainability [Video]

Sterling Johnson, third from right, poses in Ajo with a group of Ajo CSA farmers on Jan. 31, 2024. (Photo by Harris Hicks/Cronkite News)

Young shoots poke out of a plot at the Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture farm in Ajo on Jan. 31, 2024. (Photo by Harris Hicks/Cronkite News)

Elijah Marrietta works at the Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture farm in Ajo on the Tohono O’odham Nation reservation. Photo taken Jan. 31, 2024. (Photo by Harris Hicks/Cronkite News)

AJO – Jesse Garcia was first introduced to farming in his grandmother’s garden. As a child, he recalls not quite understanding the true purpose of growing and how important it is.

It was in high school that he first started taking an interest in farming and agriculture. After graduating, he had a number of jobs, but he did not feel passionate about any of them. It was then that he found the Ajo Center …

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More than 8,000 pounds of frozen pizza recalled over soy concern WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

Certain boxes of 802 VT Frozen Meat Crispy Wood-Fired Crust Hand Made Pizza have been recalled after a routine inspection by the U.S. Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) revealed the pizza contains soy but does not have the proper allergen warning on the box.