Hena's family hailed from rural Shariatpur, crisscrossed by murky rivers that lend waters to rice paddies and lush vegetable fields.

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On the other are vegetable fields, several meters below the water level, and atop the dike sit a few shacks made of bamboo and plastic.

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It followed me from the fields and vegetable gardens of our little ranch in the Central Valley of California to the deciduous woodlands of our hilltop home in Minnesota.

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In the United States more than 90 percent of fruit tree and vegetable varieties found in farmers' fields at the beginning of the twentieth century are no longer there.

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Chen said tree and vegetable seedlings also have been pulled up by the roots from family fields.

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