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Atlanta Gourmet Mushroom Honors Memory Of Liam Rattray

A new mushroom garden is dedicated to the memory of the Lakeside High School graduate who was killed in 2011.

Every week East Atlanta Patch in partnership with the East Atlanta Village Farmers Market showcases one vendor discussing what farming local means to them and why it's important.

This week's feature is Atlanta Gourmet Mushroom featuring an explanation on a new memorial mushroom garden in EAV Farmer's Market Edible Learning Garden.

The garden, of course, will produce mushrooms.

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But the mushroom garden also has a special meaning as it is dedicated to the life and work of .

Rattray, a and Georgia Tech graduate with summa cum laude honors, was killed Memorial Day 2011 in Little Five Points by a drunk driver.

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The top research student in the university's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the top student in Tech’s public policy school, Rattray, a alumnus, was preparing to pursue a career in environmental advocacy.


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