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Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
On a windy winter day in Acoma Pueblo in north-western New Mexico, Aaron Lowden knelt beside a field near the San Jose River, the tribe’s primary irrigator for centuries.
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