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I'm a digital journalist for Spectrum News in Syracuse covering agriculture and food production. I graduated from Syracuse University where I earned my master's degree in photojournalism. I studied Buena Vista University in Storm Lake,...
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Harvest festival organizer, Rob Robinson, is a CNY marijuana legalization activist interested in social justice and environmental reform. Some of his advocacy is inspired by the mantras of the gay rights movement: “We’re here, we’re high, get used to it,” he says.
Farm owner, George Knarich (center in black), answers questions about his first year of growing hemp after festival organizer Rob Robinson’s speech welcoming everyone to the harvest. “You guys are beautiful — let’s harvest some hemp,” said Robinson (right in colorful jacket) to the crowd from his pickup truck pulpit.
John Kimberly, a festival attendee from New Jersey, smells a hemp flower, then cradles it in his hands. “Is this how you look at a child for the first time?” he says.