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The old man who farms with the sea

TASTIOTA, Mexico — A few miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, amid cracked earth and mesquite and sun-bleached cactus, neat rows of emerald plants sprout from the desert floor.

The crop is salicornia. It is nourished by seawater flowing from a man-made canal. And if you believe the....

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