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I decided to name the farm Durty Beets.
Beets are one of my favorite vegetables.
It's good for just your whole body.
You see it on my hat?
Look at my hat, Durty Beets,
got t-shirts too [LAUGH].
My grandmother,
she had a farm in her backyard.
And she would keep me on some
days while my mother worked,
so that's pretty much where it came from.
That seed was sowed inside of me as
a little girl, and so therefore I
just fell in love with it and I've been
farming or gardening wherever I go.
Wherever I live, teaching people how to
farm, teaching people how to grow food,
how to preserve food, how to make healthy
dishes with the food that you grow.
Just trying to create love and
affection for the earth.
Yeah, these are all collards.
I've just been growing them for
about, like I said,
almost about six to eight
months I would say.
And just pick them from the bottom and
fertilizing and
let them, see what they'll do,
see if they'll keep on producing.
More tomatoes growing, we'll be
eating tomatoes with collard greens.
[LAUGH] I've grown so
much from this garden, and
people who have come to
help me in this garden.
I have grown maturely,
just spiritually, so
many ways I have grown just connecting
with different people through learning.
Although urban farming has been
around since what, World War I,
II with victory gardens,
it's still looked at as somethinglike,
there's a personal garden,
it's not really.
But urban farms help feed neighborhoods.
It helped to feed neighborhoods.
It helped bring neighborhoods together.
It helps conserve green
spaces within neighborhoods.
So, yeah, they're very important and
they need the equal amount of
funding as industrial farms get.
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