Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farming Community Hilborn Elizabeth D.
All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees.The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before,…
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All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years became increasingly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees.The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent.As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds from skeptical neighbors, environmental experts, and agricultural consultants, she'd assembled information. Her observations provided a framework, a timeline to explain the evidence she'd collected.The chemicals found in her water samples showed beyond any doubt that not only her farm, but her greater farming community, was at risk from toxins that travelled with rain water over the land and deep into the soil. Potent toxins that had wiped out small life as it flowed over the earth: