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GROW YOUR OWN

Have you ever grown your own food? Sometimes we become so used to buying our groceries from the supermarket that we forget how they came to be there in the first place. Today we import our food from all over the world, from South American avocados to Canadian maple syrup. But less than a hundred years ago, during the Second World War, it was a different story.

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