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Why, people sometimes ask me, do you grow your own food? Why go to all the trouble of tilling, planting, and weeding a piece of your valuable backyard for vegetables? Aren’t all those fruit trees and ...

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Few artists spend more time putting the world around them into words than Josh Ritter. As a musician, he has released 13 studio albums and seven more EPs since 2000. As an author, he has published two ...