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For The Wild

This year approx­i­mate­ly 42 mil­lion peo­ple will expe­ri­ence food inse­cu­ri­ty in the Unit­ed States, a per­verse num­ber when put in con­text to the sur­plus of food many of us have access to. In this weeks episode, we look at the work of Vir­ginia Free Farm with guest Amy­rose Foll. By pro­vid­ing free pro­duce, plants, seeds, chick­en, and ducks Vir­ginia Free Farm is address­ing the qual­i­ty of food offered to their com­mu­ni­ty, while also work­ing to strength­en their local food­shed by get­ting more folks involved in gar­den­ing and small-scale farm­ing. Amy­rose con­tin­ues to cre­ate a pow­er­ful exam­ple of how we can make mean­ing­ful inter­ven­tions with­in the exist­ing food sys­tem while also work­ing on build­ing an alter­na­tive mod­el where every­one’s health and well­be­ing is pri­or­i­tized. Amy­rose is an enrolled trib­al mem­ber of the Abena­ki, a vet­er­an of the U.S. Army, and alum­ni of both Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty’s Col­lege of Agri­cul­ture and Life Sci­ence, and S.C. John­son Grad­u­ate School Of Man­age­ment. A pas­sion for agri­cul­ture and deep con­cerns about com­mu­ni­ty food secu­ri­ty led her to become a stake­hold­er in the Vir­ginia Dept. of Agri­cul­ture Equi­table Food Ori­ent­ed Dis­tri­b­u­tion Task­force and founder of Vir­ginia Free Farms.