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Karen Mitchell's avatar

Such an honor to promote Texas Agriculture during those years under the leadership of Jim Hightower! Karen DeCuennick Mitchell

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Gary Keith's avatar

I was in Woody Hills Co-op, but never made it to Avenues. When I was on the board of Wheatsville Food Co-op--and working at TDA for Hightower--we hosted him for a big gathering in the parking lot as he gave Wheatsville the certificate as the first certified organic retail outlet in the state! Back up at TDA, it was Keith Jones who put together the organic project; he went on to work with the new USDA organic certification project. Of course, Frank Ford and his Arrowhead Mills organics were located in the Panhandle, where DOE wanted to dig the nation's nuclear waste dump. So, I was glad I got to meet Ford as we put out the word that a nuclear dump there would kill organic's marketability.

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