Twenty-six year-old farmer George Patterson expands on his family\u2019s coal-mining heritage with a new enterprise\u2014reclaiming abandoned mine land to grow food and restore the land for generations to come. When George\u2019s dad told him he could go to business school or go into business, he set up shop in a shipping container on a mine site, with air mattress and shotgun in tow. George worked by day and binged YouTube by night to teach himself the art and science of agriculture as an economic driver. Now he\u2019s got a full-fledged farm in not one, but seven shipping containers, with four full-time employees and zero air mattresses. And he\u2019s sleeping in a real bed, bought and paid for with his hard-earned profits. Today, business is booming, but it\u2019s not about profit for George, it\u2019s about helping a community find hope in good hard work and fantastically delicious food, food that is truly wild and wonderful like its West Virginia home.
Hosted by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.
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