Voa Agriculture Report - Singer Aims to Grow Interest in Local Farming

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.

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Country singer and songwriter Adrienne Young brings together music agricultural activism.

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She even included seeds in album cover of her first CD.

Adrienne Young people to know that she supports the movement in to increase local farming. She offers information about agricultural on her Web site. And now part of the from her third and newest release, "Room to Grow," be donated to help support community gardens.

Adrienne Young's has lived in Florida for seven generations. Her ancestors develop the agriculture industry there. The state of Florida the nation's second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, California.

Adrienne Young has said that her interest nature was shaped by the fact that she did grow up on a farm. She grew up in house her grandfather built on what had been farmland generations ago. But the land was developed and was partly a large highway.

Adrienne Young has teamed up two organizations that support local farming and gardening efforts. is the American Community Gardening Association. The other is , a group she has represented for several years.

says buying locally grown food is not only about and freshness. The group says buying locally also helps strengthen local economies and protect the environment. Experts say in the United States travels an average of more three thousand kilometers from farm to store.

We you with Adrienne Young and the title song from new CD, "Room to Grow."

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And that's the Special English Agriculture Report, written by Dana Demange. You learn more about American agriculture at voaspecialenglishcom.. I'm Katherine .

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