#63: Green Acres: Farming for Millennials and Other People Who Like Food

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Episode 63 • 23rd April 2019 • Important, Not Important • Important, Not Important

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In Episode 63, Quinn & Brian discuss: Building a new pipeline of sustainable food growers.

Our guest is Dena Leibman, the Executive Director of the Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (or Future Harvest for short), a non-profit that works to build a sustainable Chesapeake Foodshed from farm and fishery to table. But Dena is one to practice what she preaches – or a workaholic – so the Leibman family also started ZigBone Farm Retreat, a 100-acre sheep and goat farm in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains that they are slowly converting into a naturally built retreat center and event space.

And you know what’s really cool? Food without a bunch of shit in it, literally and figuratively; food that keeps us healthy instead of making us sick; food that makes us stronger, faster, and generally more like The Six Million Dollar Man. Today, we learn where our current food pipeline fails us – and what we can do to start supporting more sustainable farming and distribution practices today.

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Links:

Future Harvest: https://www.futureharvestcasa.org/

Beginner Farmer Training Program: https://www.futureharvestcasa.org/new-farmers/how-apply

Foodshed Field School: https://www.futureharvestcasa.org/foodshed-field-school

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FHCASA/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fhcasa/

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Find a local CSA: https://www.localharvest.org/csa/

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