Demeter's Fracked Heart (And the Emerald Ash Borer)

by Anya Martin

A farm stand, “Queen of the Harvest,” but the forest trees are choking from the invasive Emerald Ash Borer, and the lifeblood of the farm has been polluted by fracking drills. A cautionary tale unfolds about breaking your mother’s heart, the fruits of the dead, and the false spring of some “renewables.”vegan instagrammer arrives hungry to buy apples from the legendary western Pennsylvania

A farm stand, “Queen of the Harvest,” but the forest trees are choking from the invasive Emerald Ash Borer, and the lifeblood of the farm has been polluted by fracking drills. A cautionary tale unfolds about breaking your mother’s heart, the fruits of the dead, and the false spring of some “renewables.”vegan instagrammer arrives hungry to buy apples from the legendary western Pennsylvania

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