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  What is your background? How long have you worked on the farm? This is our third season with Rosy Buck Farm! We did a lot of WWOOFing on farms across the US and the world. We met when I was taking time off school and we were the only two WWOOFers on a farm…

  What part of the food system do you work on? We are a nonprofit organization that works to build a stronger, more equitable neighborhoods. Rise is a nonprofit developer and development consultant that provides predevelopment lending and capacity-building technical assistance and training to other nonprofit community development organizations (CDCs), government agencies and institutions in…

What part of the food system do you work on? The Fair Food Network focuses on eliminating food insecurity. The program I’m working on, Double Up Food Bucks, works on food insecurity, as well as local and regional food. Double Up Food Buck is an incentive program for SNAP recipients to get extra money for…

Alicia and Joshua Davis never intended to become full time farmers. The husband and wife duo both have engineering degrees from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. However, when Joshua discovered aquaponics, a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish supplies the nutrients for plant growth, which in turn purifies the water, the…

            What part of the food system do you work on? Community Development, Education and Access. We are a community development organization that uses the power of growing food to change people’s lives and communities. Working with small children to adult populations we try to serve all demographics while focusing…

When did you start farming? I’m not actually a farmer per se, but rather a farm educator. I run all of the youth programs at CAASTLC’s Seeds of Hope Farm, with our teen employment program being the bulk of what I do. What is your background? I was raised in Southern California and attended college…