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I am a farmer. Growing up as a suburbanite just a short train ride from New York City, I never had any real aspirations to be a farmer; however, I now find myself planting peach trees, rattling off over 30 varieties of apples, and living my days glued to the weather channel. It is often the unexpected and unconventional paths we take that prove to be the most exciting and that lead to the most learning.
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Stribling, S. (2017). The Transformative Power of Action Research. In: Baily, S., Shahrokhi, F., Carsillo, T. (eds) Experiments in Agency. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-944-7_3
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