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 what's happened as I've continued to grow food. I've recognized that the

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power in growing food keeping things
local and being able to educate

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people about nutrition, cooking and so
we're going back to the table

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together has been really important.

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It becomes an community building
relationship building with the community

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too, because then they have ideas that
they share with me and it just

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becomes this sort of really wonderful
exchange of information which helps

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to empower people to cook, grow their
own food and go back to the table

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together.

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But the way small farms can ignite the
community again in a way that helps

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rethink or re feed our communities is
by actualizing small farms and a

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large scale in many places so that
there is more access to fresh. Oh and

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that gives people power, I guess

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Our food source has been degraded in
the last 40 years in a way that is

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unhealthy. And so it's now time to
look at it and restructure the way we

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grow access and distribute food in a
way that gives it back to the people

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in a way that makes them healthy.

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Small farms have the way leverage to
bring people back together and build

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relationships and part of what we need
to do is embrace each other and

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build relationships again.

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What I'd really like to see come out
of 2040 is that the conversation

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really begins to, to gel between
political leaders, farmers, community

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leaders and people in a way that
embraces and acknowledges the fact that

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we have a problem with food production
in this country and that we need to

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be able to shift the way we access,
distribute and grow food so that we

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can have healthier, stronger families
and communities.