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Joan Dye Gussow is a long-time organic gardener and former chair of the Nutrition Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a member of the National Organic Standards Board and author of, among other books, Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture (Bootstrap Press 1991). A new book about 40 years of lessons learned trying to eat more locally will be published by Chelsea Green next spring.