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of the Sandhills All around the region people are learning to live off the land BY MELVIN E. LEWIS
From Rockingham to Raeford, Lauringburg to Lillington and Sanford to Southern Pines, people are embracing the farm and green movements and adopting lifestyles that take them closer to the earth. Need proof? May 12 is Urban Farm Day in the Sandhills. In seven Moore County sites, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. start- ing at Southern Pines Elementary School, people will venture to homes and gardens to see what North Carolina fingers, cuttings and imaginations have created in the Pinehurst and
h the times, they are a' changin'" — Bob Dylan
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Southern Pines area. At the Fayetteville Community Garden near the Grannis Field and Fayetteville Regional Airport, bee- keepers, master gardeners and goat, chicken and rabbit raisers will tell children and adults stories about their favorite ani- mals and insects. They will allow little ones and their parents to pet hairy four legged mammals, birds and piglets that many normally only see in zoos. Beekeepers are known to put honey bees on their fingers and let them walk around. As Bob Dylan sang almost forty years ago: the world high and low is changing and everyone must pay attention. The sus- tainable and green movements are gaining momentum and
