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(wind blowing)

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(dog barking)

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(dramatic music)

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(birds chirping)

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>> In this valley alone,
there's 14,000 acres.

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Biggest valley
in the state of Hawai'i,

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can feed
the whole state of Hawai'i.

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The military occupies
seventy percent of it.

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They occupy
the water, the mountain,

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and a lot of
prime agricultural soil.

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>> The neighbourhood we're in

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is poor black and brown
working class folks.

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I just thought that people in
this neighbourhood don't need,

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I guess, fresh produce.

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All of these systems
and patterns coming together

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to create, like,
a tinderbox of oppression.

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>> As we were working for
the shochet,

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that's the term for the person
who does the slaughter,

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I kinda asked him,

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"Is there any space
for women to learn this?"

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And in his really thick accent
he was kind of like,

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"No, no space!".

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You know, just really
nudged me off.

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>> When it comes to
climate change,

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the icebergs were there
to protect the inlets

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and the land from the waves.

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Our permafrost is melting

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and literally
falling into the ocean.

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(singing)

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(drumming)

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The one percent that's
screwing up the planet,

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they don't care.

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They don't even know we exist.

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>> Slavery wasn't just like
this cute thing.

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It's what created our capitalist
mode of economic production.

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It was the catalyst.

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For me, the work is
to return to the land

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from choice.

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>> I refuse to subscribe to
the notion that we're doomed

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I do subscribe to the notion
that we're gonna change,

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but to be actually resilient
is really hard.

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(conches blowing)

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(singing in Hawaiian)

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(praying)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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(chanting in Hawaiian)

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Just doing E Ho Mai
is just so centering,

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because you know, when you
drop into another place,

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it's very humbling to come home

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and to see
our people thriving,

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and to see the land,

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the aina thriving
and growing food.

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So very humble to be in
the circle with you folks.

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>> A circle to start
and a circle to close

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is how our ancestors
always started.

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It's this grounding and-

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calling upon those that came
before you to imbue your work

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with the right attitudes,
the right strength,

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the right ability
of discernment.

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And then submitting yourself
to the forces greater than you

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so that you can
provide for your families.

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>> What we're doing here is like
revolutionary AF, okay?

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Reeducating mindsets about
using the land righteously,

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you know, we're growing
food organically,

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no chemicals.

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>> Today for harvest,

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we're planning to
take out field six.

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We're gonna
take out everything,

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so all the beets and rest of
the cilantro from there.

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So, we're gonna
make some money today.

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No panic,
go organic!

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(clapping)

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>> For communities like ours,
employment is a form of

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like...

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I just gotta think back about

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after dropping out of
high school myself,

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what kind of jobs I got,

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and no one gave a rat's ass
about who your name was.

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You basically knew you were
getting exploited,

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they knew they were
exploiting you,

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over time that just builds up

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to this deep sense
of self-loathing.

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Well, that was the things
that we felt happen

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when you were not designing
your own economic development.

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If you can just remember to
clean out your sink

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and stuff like that.

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Um, but we have
eighteen CSAs, and, shoot,

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that's all I got.
Let's have a good day.

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No panic, go organic!

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(clapping)

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>> You have to be
seventeen to twenty-four

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and live on
the Wai'anae coast,

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which is predominately
Native Hawaiian.

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They sign a contract to
work with us for two years.

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In exchange, we provide them
a full tuition waiver to college

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and a $515 dollars
a month stipend.

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>> ... I want the radishes,
who's doing radishes?

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>> Jacob.

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>> All right. Hurry up
with those radishes.

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>> Okay.

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MA'O's an acronym
it's M-A-O.

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It stands for mala 'ai 'opio.

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Mala 'ai is garden,
mala is a patch of food

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and 'ai is to eat,
and 'opio is youth.

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On the surface
it means "Youth Garden."

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At the deeper level it means,

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"When youth cultivate the land,
the land cultivates them."

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It's this type of restoration
of the symbiosis

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we used to have where
your standing in society was

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a function of how
many people you fed.

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>> With the weather,
and with the soil,

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and with water,

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you can grow anything you want.

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All this talk of
Hawaiian people,

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Indigenous people have the
knowledge to care for the land,

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yet we don't
apply it to our society today.

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80 to 90 percent of our food
is imported at a given time.

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Having Hawai'i to be
dependent on, you know,

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outside sources,
just bothers me.

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I'm with the mission to
create youthful leaders.

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Every day I have to
challenge myself to evolve,

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I have to be a better person,

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I have to do things
that I don't naturally do.

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This job needs me to be
much more than I can be.

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>> So don't cut that
right down here.

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Even in high school,

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the graduation rate in Wai'anae
isn't that great.

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So this internship
pushes us to finish college

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and get a degree so we can have
a better job, or better future,

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compared to our-

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compared to our stereotypes
that Wai'anae has.

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When I transfer to U. H. West,
I'm gonna be

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studying justice administration,

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so I want to be
a police officer

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or work in that field.

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Okay, we have five more minutes
to cut eighty-eight bunches.

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These are lu'au leaves.

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We have to cut fifty of them
before we go.

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And it's also known as
taro or kalo.

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You can eat it as poi,
and I love poi.

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And I think you use
the leaves for lau lau, right?

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(yelling in the distance)

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Yeah you can use the leaves
for your lau lau.

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>> We're all in a lifeboat.

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A hurricane can come.

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Something can happen
with the government,

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it can shut down.

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What if those
imports don't come?

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This really affects
our livelihood.

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We'll run out of
food within the week.

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People will go crazy,

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they'll buy much more
than they need

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'cause they're scared.

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(train whistle blowing)

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(urban music)

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>> I think the thing that I
would love to grow is peppers.

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Just like, a lot of different
types of peppers, and just...

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>> I can give you some seeds
before I leave.

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>> That'd be cool.

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>> I have some habaneros,
and some ghost,

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and some bhut jolokias.

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>> Did the arm heal good?

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>> Yeah, everything
healed great.

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>> It looks so cute.

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>> Yeah, everybody-
I get lots of compliments.

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My tattoo is
a representation of,

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I guess, myself.

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I'm deeply rooted,
I use my hands to grow things.

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I love farming.

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Kansas is the sunflower state,
that's the state flower,

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and then I was
born in Kansas.

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Anna does a program called
Food Not Bombs in Kansas City

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where they make meals
for the homeless folks.

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She hit me up about wanting to
build some raised beds,

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wanting to do produce,
and so we were like,

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"Can we trade?"

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I mean, specifically here
in Kansas City, like,

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one of the issues that I saw
is just having a-

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like a focus on having
markets that are just, like,

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on this side of Troost.

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>> I think it's just like
an indication that

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it's just basically saying like,
"This is the new red line."

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>> Yeah!

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>> That's like what it's saying.

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>> Yeah, that's how almost
every street in America

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that's named
Martin Luther King Boulevard,

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if you drive
down it long enough,

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you'll run into
some sort of poverty.

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Like, deep poverty.

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(melodious music)

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Where I operate
out of is located in

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what a lot of people call
a food desert.

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I don't like that term,
food desert, because,

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deserts are not man-made.

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Food deserts
are more like food apartheid,

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because apartheid is a system

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in which by design

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there's laws written
or bills passed

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that make it harder for

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some people to advance.

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Red lining is where they took
specific neighbourhoods

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and drew red lines
around the map to say,

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this neighbourhood
makes this amount of money,

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or has this many
Black folks in it,

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and so it excludes certain
people from certain things

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that normally the whole city
or the whole community

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would be able to
take part of.

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In America you have
a lot of cookie cutter spots,

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where you have the CVS,
McDonald's, Burger King,

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Kentucky Fried Chicken,
and Taco Hut, whatever.

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And you always have
those things readily available

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but you have zero nutrition.

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There's no bananas, or potatoes,
or cabbage or what-have-you.

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That's a design.

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I mean, if you're
driving through the desert,

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you're not gonna stop
and create a community.

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We're in a neighborhood that was
really booming at one time,

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where working class people
were living and breathing,

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and now,
through gentrification

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and then just
the flight of businesses

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and urban modernization,
the store closed down.

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This is just a prime example of
what food apartheid looks like.

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(melodious music)

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You can just look at
people's faces

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and see a struggle,
you know.

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But at the same time, you can,
you can sometimes get a smile.

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Everyone that you meet
on these corners

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has a sense of wanting to,
you know, better their life.

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The people who live here
still need to eat,

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they just have to go elsewhere.

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(melodious music)

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I refer to myself
not as a farmer

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but as an agrarian steward,

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because I feel like
anything I take from the land,

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I should put back
to the, into the land.

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Horseradish!

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My grandmother
being a Choctaw-Kickapoo

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and my grandfather
watching his father

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killed by a slave owner,

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it's important for me that I do
that to not only honour the land

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but to honour my ancestors.

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A lot of times
you get the stigma of

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"Farming is slave work."

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But I always tell people like,
Black Wall Street thrived

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because of
Black farmers.

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There wasn't a butcher,
or a chef, or a restaurant

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that was getting their food
from anybody else

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but a Black farmer.

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Before this country started
selling and trading humans,

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they were selling and trading
tobacco and cotton and rice.

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Instead of taking those things
as things that I'm ashamed of,

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it's just become, for me,
more of things that

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have empowered me to just
grow food to help people,

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set people, people free.

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We're at East High School,
on the land farm.

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When I first started here
three years ago,

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we only had twelve of these

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and with the help of City Year
and another major corporation,

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they came in and helped us
build more raised beds.

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All of the beds are
different for each student.

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>> Now aren't they-they're not
supposed to go in there

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So they're like a a certain—
until they get bigger?

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>> Yeah! they're too
small to be out.

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(laughing)

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So have you heard of gherkins?

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They're like tiny cucumbers.

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>> They kind of look like
tiny watermelons.

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>> Yeah, they're
the same families.

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>> When plants be like this
do you, do you guys like,

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get them and throw them away
or you keep them on the plant?

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>> They're still edible.

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But yeah, when it
starts to get like this

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we'll just pick all the fruit

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and then ideally you want to
tear it out and tear it down.

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But yeah, no,
it's a good question.

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Thank you all for being patient,

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and thank everyone else
for coming to the workshop.

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My name's Eric Person.

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I run a business called
Kansas City Aquaponics,

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this is Aquaponics 101.

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Came over here
to help the school

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sort of reboot the program.

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In return they let me run my
business without having to pay

00:17:50.027 --> 00:17:54.115
sort of any overhead,
electricity, water, or rent,

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and so the partnership
worked well.

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They were on this side.

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For me, I would consider
myself a poor Black farmer.

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Being able to run my business
out of East High School,

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they were like,
"You can help us grow the food

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and then we'll share it."

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So in essence,
I was doing

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what my grandfather did,
is share crop,

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but on a not so much
oppressive level.

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This is just a holding tank.

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The fish are kind of skittish.

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This system is designed

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so that the fish
breed in the pots

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and then the babies
will travel down here

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and they'll stay
in this, this tank

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until they decide
they want to go back.

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>> Eric, we call him ubaba

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which is a term of endearment
for, like, father in Swahili.

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So we call him that.
He helped my son

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who is seven
start his own garden.

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So he's been a real asset to us

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and our growing
and stuff like that.

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Our foreparents,
this is what they did,

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with choices
and without choices.

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So we're trying to bring this
back into the community

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with people that look like us,

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you know, because
a lot of us don't do it,

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or we don't believe in it,

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or history has made us think
that this is not the space.

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But growing your own food,

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that, to me,
is probably the most

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revolutionary thing
that you can do.

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(upbeat music)

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>> Me having a business here,

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I've actually purchased
some of the lettuce

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and vegetables
from the students.

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So they're learning the value
of growing food for yourself

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when there's no access.

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I know when I was in high school

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no one was teaching me
how to grow food

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and so if you don't have money,

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you can at least grow some
things to sort of subsidize

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or, you know, so you don't
have to spend so much money.

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We had strawberries
we're growing,

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and then we planted
the, the cucumbers.

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(gun shots)

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That's not
uncommon to hear. Um..

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>> What was that?

00:20:00.950 --> 00:20:03.953
>> Gun shots.

00:20:06.205 --> 00:20:10.209
(dramatic music)

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Decolonizing.

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A lot of people think
it's being in the face of folks

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and just being like,
you know, you need to do better.

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But I don't feel like
that's my job.

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Watching them go from,

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"Ooh, I don't want to
touch dirt,"

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to "Ooh, that's my,
like those are my peas,

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those are you know,
those are my tomatoes."

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What gives me a sense of pride

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is I feel like I'm teaching the
next generation of growers

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that it's not just about
growing food to eat it.

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(dramatic music)

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>> It's really amazing
to see the transformation.

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>> Yeah I just,
I never thought,

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even, even when we were
ordering the herbs,

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I really didn't
picture it being as

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bountiful as this.

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There are not a lot of Black
farmers growing medicinal herbs.

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>> I'm about to...

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>> Lavender is
doing really good.

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>> Make some
smudge sticks from that.

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>> Tinctures and salves,

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some to like,
increase lactation,

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to reduce cramping,
all in a holistic, natural way.

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>> That was totally voluntary,

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I don't know where
that came from?

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But those are magnificent.

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>> I threw some
seeds over here

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but I didn't think
that they would take.

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>> They totally took.

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They're still flowering
but I don't know what— ah!

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Is that the watermelon?

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>> Yeah!

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>> Oh my goodness.

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So my idea is
to convert this empty box

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into a placenta garden,

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so the mother's can come
and bury their placentas here

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if they want to.

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>> I was just thinking
people could kind of

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take flowers away as a memorial.

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>> I like that idea.

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Maybe we can do some of that
for the grieving garden too.

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When it comes to
maternal mortality rates

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Black woman are about
three to five times

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more likely to die
during the child-bearing year.

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That includes
the pregnancy period

00:22:20.130 --> 00:22:21.715 line:20%
and the post-partum period

00:22:21.715 --> 00:22:24.843 line:20%
and, of course,
during birth itself.

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And so the rates, again,

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when you break them down by race

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they are significantly higher
for African-American women.

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There's some things
we don't have control over.

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We don't always
have control over

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the quality of air
that we breathe

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or the quality
of the water that we drink.

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And the growing of food

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on whatever land you happen
to have possession of

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is a really
important tool for health.

00:22:54.748 --> 00:22:57.876
And Eric's been a real asset,

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I think he has brilliant ideas.

00:23:01.213 --> 00:23:04.008
Oh my gosh, this is amazing.

00:23:04.008 --> 00:23:07.886
Eric, I remember when this
was a big patch of dirt.

00:23:07.886 --> 00:23:09.680 line:50%
>> Parking lot!

00:23:07.886 --> 00:23:09.680
>> Not even good dirt,

00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.933 line:50%
because it was underneath
all that concrete.

00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.933
>> Yeah!

00:23:12.933 --> 00:23:14.768
>> Used to be a parking lot.

00:23:18.314 --> 00:23:22.318 line:50%
>> Well we got trough it so.

00:23:18.314 --> 00:23:22.318
>> Yeah.

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The most fulfilling
aspect of what I do

00:23:28.741 --> 00:23:31.952
is just watching
people be able to learn.

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Growing food
is, is healing,

00:23:39.209 --> 00:23:43.839
and so the most
rewarding aspect is-

00:23:47.217 --> 00:23:49.428
is watching people get healed.

00:23:52.556 --> 00:23:54.558
Sticking your hand in the soil

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is one of the most
healing things that you can do,

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because you literally
are connected

00:24:03.108 --> 00:24:04.943
to your roots.

00:24:08.238 --> 00:24:10.449
I don't think people realize

00:24:10.449 --> 00:24:14.662
how connected
that we are to the earth

00:24:16.163 --> 00:24:17.539
in a way that is

00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:21.377
more spiritual than physical.

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So on the other side, here,
is the state of Missouri.

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Missouri being one of
the last states in the Union

00:24:33.222 --> 00:24:36.183
to abolish slavery.

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Across the river,
that was the separation of

00:24:39.269 --> 00:24:42.272
whether you're someone's
property or you're not.

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Waiting until it gets dark,
swimming across the river,

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soaking wet, cold.

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I'm glad that people,
people made it, you know.

00:24:53.909 --> 00:24:56.578
And then knowing how many
people probably didn't make it,

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and probably, you know,
would have rather drowned

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than, than be held in captivity.

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Talking about those things
that were constructed

00:25:09.341 --> 00:25:11.510
to keep
certain people oppressed,

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I mean, that's obviously
where it started.

00:25:15.723 --> 00:25:17.599
Always playing in
the back of your mind that

00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:19.476
there was a time where
there were people who were

00:25:19.476 --> 00:25:21.687
just trying to survive
and so now,

00:25:21.687 --> 00:25:24.898
growing food
as our survival tactic,

00:25:24.898 --> 00:25:26.692
and taking that power
into your own hand

00:25:26.692 --> 00:25:30.320
when you can, to sort of
create another avenue.

00:25:33.824 --> 00:25:36.660
I try to take that power
into my hands I guess.

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The red
is for the blood that we shed

00:25:45.419 --> 00:25:47.004
and the green
is for this land

00:25:47.004 --> 00:25:50.007
and the black
is for our skin, you know?

00:26:11.069 --> 00:26:12.946
>> As a young person

00:26:12.946 --> 00:26:15.324
and I just turned twenty one
not too long ago.

00:26:15.324 --> 00:26:17.951
Forcing myself
to be more mature

00:26:17.951 --> 00:26:20.579
in a place
where I actually have a power

00:26:20.579 --> 00:26:24.208
and a voice to actually,
you know, guide people.

00:26:24.208 --> 00:26:26.627
Not much to
lord over them, yeah.

00:26:27.169 --> 00:26:29.755
I'm just learning more about
business and entrepreneurship

00:26:29.755 --> 00:26:31.548
and how important
it is to make money,

00:26:31.548 --> 00:26:36.220
not just for myself,
but actually for our community.

00:26:36.220 --> 00:26:37.971
Wanted to bring in
more money for them,

00:26:37.971 --> 00:26:41.892
but also to give them a
lifestyle that we originally had

00:26:41.892 --> 00:26:43.894
but is more like
a privilege now.

00:26:48.899 --> 00:26:50.275
>> We cleaned out the land here,

00:26:50.275 --> 00:26:52.569
we cleared out all of the rocks,
but before we planted,

00:26:52.569 --> 00:26:53.987
we built an ahu.

00:26:54.822 --> 00:26:56.406
So this is an ahu.

00:26:56.406 --> 00:26:59.701
When we built this
it was designed

00:26:59.701 --> 00:27:02.037
with the mind that a lot of
our students or interns

00:27:02.037 --> 00:27:04.665
have different faiths
or no faith at all.

00:27:04.665 --> 00:27:06.542
So it wasn't a thing
of religion,

00:27:06.542 --> 00:27:09.503
as much as a space
of focusing your spirit,

00:27:09.503 --> 00:27:13.549
and the spirit is not religious,
it's something pre-religious.

00:27:13.549 --> 00:27:15.634
It's this understanding
of continuity

00:27:15.634 --> 00:27:16.885
that you are not yourself,

00:27:16.885 --> 00:27:20.556
you're a part of this long
line of people and events,

00:27:20.556 --> 00:27:22.641
and that you have to acknowledge
it every once in a while.

00:27:22.641 --> 00:27:24.476
Or you can get lost
in the weeds.

00:27:24.476 --> 00:27:26.228
Literally, as again,
we're farmers.

00:27:26.228 --> 00:27:27.771
You have three piko.

00:27:27.771 --> 00:27:30.983
You have your piko o,
which is your fontanelle

00:27:30.983 --> 00:27:33.694
and it connects you
to your ancestors.

00:27:33.694 --> 00:27:36.864
You have your piko i,
which is your navel

00:27:36.864 --> 00:27:39.449
and it connects you
to who's alive now.

00:27:39.449 --> 00:27:42.411
And you have your piko a, which
is your reproductive organs

00:27:42.411 --> 00:27:44.246
and it connects you
to future generations.

00:27:44.246 --> 00:27:46.039
So this is our piko o.

00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.083
This is a space
where we connect

00:27:48.083 --> 00:27:51.128
to those that were before us,

00:27:51.128 --> 00:27:54.172
who provided a context
for us to be abundant

00:27:54.172 --> 00:27:56.174
and the expectation
that we do the same.

00:27:59.761 --> 00:28:02.389
We built it here
to also acknowledge

00:28:02.389 --> 00:28:04.725
that we weren't
the first people to farm.

00:28:04.725 --> 00:28:08.061
The ancestors here
were the first organic farmers.

00:28:08.061 --> 00:28:09.688
And that the crops
may look different

00:28:09.688 --> 00:28:10.772
the people
may look different

00:28:10.772 --> 00:28:14.359
but we're farming
with the same intention.

00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:15.444
What matters most?

00:28:15.444 --> 00:28:16.987
The health of your water,
the health of your people,

00:28:16.987 --> 00:28:18.572
the health of your soil.

00:28:18.572 --> 00:28:20.782
And I think wealth
in contemporary society,

00:28:20.782 --> 00:28:25.454
of which I participate in,
blinds you to that.

00:28:25.454 --> 00:28:27.414
By having to do this work
and ground yourself

00:28:27.414 --> 00:28:29.583
in traditional
notions of wealth.

00:28:29.583 --> 00:28:31.543
It not only produces
food in the short term,

00:28:31.543 --> 00:28:33.712
it awakens us
to what we have to do

00:28:33.712 --> 00:28:36.298
and it helps us with
a sense of communion

00:28:36.298 --> 00:28:39.593
with our landscape
like our ancestors did

00:28:39.593 --> 00:28:41.094
in practical ways,

00:28:41.094 --> 00:28:43.513
and that is how
we assume agency again.

00:28:45.724 --> 00:28:49.728
(upbeat music)

00:28:51.730 --> 00:28:54.942
(people chatting)

00:28:58.987 --> 00:29:00.781
>> See in Wai'anae,
it can get hot,

00:29:00.781 --> 00:29:04.409
so you gotta, gotta like
give them some juice!

00:29:06.954 --> 00:29:09.122
Hawai'i is
a melting pot, right?

00:29:09.122 --> 00:29:12.084
Like I'm Filipino,
Japanese, Hawaiian,

00:29:12.084 --> 00:29:13.085
English, Irish, Scottish.

00:29:13.085 --> 00:29:17.673
That is like the after effect
of the plantation era.

00:29:17.673 --> 00:29:20.258
So this population
over here in Wai'anae,

00:29:20.258 --> 00:29:22.386
a lot of
Hawaiian people are here.

00:29:22.386 --> 00:29:25.973
You know,
I make a beet poké.

00:29:25.973 --> 00:29:31.019
So I roast it so it's
really soft, take the skin off,

00:29:31.019 --> 00:29:32.521
those ones
you don't need to cube

00:29:32.521 --> 00:29:34.314
but I'll cut them in half.

00:29:34.314 --> 00:29:38.527
In any poke recipe,
use that instead of fish.

00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:41.947 line:50%
>> Okay!

00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:41.947
>> It might blow your mind,
you never know.

00:29:42.197 --> 00:29:45.701 line:50%
>> I'll try your poke recipe.
Three of them.

00:29:42.197 --> 00:29:45.701
>> Okay.

00:29:45.701 --> 00:29:47.202
>> All three.

00:29:47.202 --> 00:29:49.037
>> You're a gangsta, auntie.

00:29:50.205 --> 00:29:52.624
>> We were the first market
on the, in the state

00:29:52.624 --> 00:29:54.626
to accept EBT.

00:29:54.626 --> 00:29:58.046
People who do receive EBT
or food stamp benefits,

00:29:58.046 --> 00:29:59.965
they will come to our tent,
they would swipe their card,

00:29:59.965 --> 00:30:01.341
and we give them tokens.

00:30:01.341 --> 00:30:02.634
So each token is worth a dollar

00:30:02.634 --> 00:30:05.846
but we have an awesome program
where we double their money.

00:30:06.722 --> 00:30:08.265
You know, we're trying
to be sustainable

00:30:08.265 --> 00:30:11.685
and really just trying to
get everybody to eat local

00:30:11.685 --> 00:30:13.687
so we can live off the land.

00:30:14.646 --> 00:30:15.647
>> Okay, what do you got ma'am?

00:30:15.647 --> 00:30:18.150
You got beets
and daikon.

00:30:18.150 --> 00:30:22.070
Right here is the best way
for the farmer, us,

00:30:22.070 --> 00:30:23.905
to sell directly
to the consumers,

00:30:23.905 --> 00:30:25.449
our community members.

00:30:25.449 --> 00:30:28.160
And it's more about the,

00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.912
the interactions
than transactions.

00:30:30.912 --> 00:30:32.706
I'm all about
creating a relationship

00:30:32.706 --> 00:30:35.250
between me
and the customer, you know.

00:30:35.250 --> 00:30:38.587
Having them understand
the process of what it takes

00:30:38.587 --> 00:30:41.089
to grow the veggies
that they love so much.

00:30:41.089 --> 00:30:42.966
And for me,
it's, it's a thrill

00:30:42.966 --> 00:30:46.094
because seeing them smile
and seeing them ask questions

00:30:46.094 --> 00:30:48.096
about how we do
things on the farm,

00:30:48.096 --> 00:30:51.099
you know, we both learn from
each other, it's reciprocal.

00:30:52.267 --> 00:30:55.062
Cook the stem too.
Flavour's in the stem.

00:30:55.062 --> 00:30:56.772
A lot of people cut,
just use the leaves,

00:30:56.772 --> 00:30:59.149
but to be honest,
when you make lau lau

00:30:59.149 --> 00:31:01.318
or lu'au stew,
you keep the stem.

00:31:01.318 --> 00:31:03.487
The stem is a flavour.

00:31:03.487 --> 00:31:05.947
This farmer's market
is called "farmer's market,"

00:31:05.947 --> 00:31:08.575
but there's a lack
of farmers here.

00:31:08.575 --> 00:31:11.369
There's only, like,
two to three vendors here

00:31:11.369 --> 00:31:13.705
that are actually
farmers in Wai'anae.

00:31:13.705 --> 00:31:15.373
Everybody else that
sells veggies and fruits

00:31:15.373 --> 00:31:16.792
is the middlemen.

00:31:16.792 --> 00:31:19.294
Having us being here

00:31:19.294 --> 00:31:22.422
kind of reminds everybody
that we still can be resilient

00:31:22.422 --> 00:31:26.426
within our realm, within our
within our community.

00:31:26.426 --> 00:31:28.470
So having a farmer's market
in Wai'anae,

00:31:28.470 --> 00:31:31.181
which was an
agricultural community,

00:31:31.181 --> 00:31:35.018
is pretty um,
pretty revolutionary.

00:31:37.104 --> 00:31:40.315 line:50%
>> Looks like leaf,
lettuce plant?

00:31:37.104 --> 00:31:40.315
>> Yeah, lettuce plant.

00:31:42.317 --> 00:31:44.736
So he's using
his double bucks.

00:31:44.736 --> 00:31:46.404
What do you think
about the double bucks?

00:31:46.404 --> 00:31:48.198 line:50%
>> Fantastic!

00:31:46.404 --> 00:31:48.198
>> Fantastic, right?

00:31:48.198 --> 00:31:50.242
>> Oh the best!

00:31:50.242 --> 00:31:53.036
I mean, what,
what can you say.

00:31:53.036 --> 00:31:54.329
>> Yup, thank you.

00:31:54.329 --> 00:31:56.832
The double bucks
is pretty cool.

00:31:56.832 --> 00:31:59.668
So somebody can come
to the farmer's market

00:31:59.668 --> 00:32:04.714
and exchange 20 dollars
worth of credit of their EBT,

00:32:04.714 --> 00:32:08.301
and they get this
for each dollar, this coin.

00:32:08.301 --> 00:32:12.472
And then Makeke will match them
with this double buck.

00:32:12.472 --> 00:32:14.307
And it's a supporting factor.

00:32:14.307 --> 00:32:17.310
So instead of 20 dollars credit,
they get forty total.

00:32:18.311 --> 00:32:19.521 line:50%
It's oranges!

00:32:18.311 --> 00:32:19.521
>> Okay!

00:32:19.521 --> 00:32:21.314 line:50%
>> That one.

00:32:19.521 --> 00:32:21.314
>> Oh! Okay.

00:32:21.314 --> 00:32:23.150
Might be sour too, auntie,
I'm sorry.

00:32:23.150 --> 00:32:24.818
(laughing)

00:32:24.818 --> 00:32:28.822
>> Is the new, new uh
oranges and stuff sour?

00:32:28.822 --> 00:32:30.657
I choose to
eat healthy if I can,

00:32:30.657 --> 00:32:32.492
and it makes it
much more affordable,

00:32:32.492 --> 00:32:34.494
because we all know
organic things are

00:32:34.494 --> 00:32:36.288
kind of pricey
at the store, you know.

00:32:36.288 --> 00:32:37.956
So on my low, fixed income,

00:32:37.956 --> 00:32:41.585
it really is a blessing.
A real blessing.

00:32:41.585 --> 00:32:43.962
They're doing studies
that lower income people

00:32:43.962 --> 00:32:45.422
generally have more
health disease,

00:32:45.422 --> 00:32:48.383
because they eat
all the processed foods

00:32:48.383 --> 00:32:50.177
because they're cheaper,
you know.

00:32:50.177 --> 00:32:52.053
And they usually
have big families

00:32:52.053 --> 00:32:55.056
and it's a little harder
to maintain perishables

00:32:55.056 --> 00:32:56.474
and what-have-you.

00:32:56.474 --> 00:32:59.686
So, oh yeah, there's a definite
connection to health.

00:33:00.312 --> 00:33:03.273
Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
I work five to four.

00:33:03.273 --> 00:33:05.942
Saturday, I work six to four,
and no lunch break.

00:33:05.942 --> 00:33:07.777
And I go to school on
Tuesdays and Thursdays,

00:33:07.777 --> 00:33:10.906
so the only day off
I have is Sundays.

00:33:10.906 --> 00:33:13.325 line:50%
Sad life.

00:33:10.906 --> 00:33:13.325
(laughing)

00:33:15.243 --> 00:33:17.537
Oh, I, I hate school.

00:33:17.537 --> 00:33:21.499 line:50%
I hate the American
college system for sure.

00:33:21.499 --> 00:33:25.629 line:50%
I do it because
to be a change in a system

00:33:25.629 --> 00:33:28.215
that you want to change

00:33:28.215 --> 00:33:30.175 line:50%
you have to be educated.

00:33:30.175 --> 00:33:33.345
And being educated
isn't just knowing.

00:33:33.345 --> 00:33:34.387
It's having the credential

00:33:34.387 --> 00:33:36.389
and the credential
is that degree.

00:33:51.238 --> 00:33:53.240
>> Hi, Hazel!

00:33:55.617 --> 00:33:59.037
In the Colorado region,
we're a high arid desert.

00:34:00.038 --> 00:34:01.957
All of our snow melt is

00:34:01.957 --> 00:34:05.377
what feeds
the water system down below.

00:34:07.254 --> 00:34:09.589
So in a lot of ways,
the mountains directly relate to

00:34:09.589 --> 00:34:11.216
the health of the farmland.

00:34:15.053 --> 00:34:16.471
Come on!

00:34:20.642 --> 00:34:22.269
Here we go.

00:34:27.232 --> 00:34:28.441
Hi!

00:34:29.901 --> 00:34:32.904 line:20%
It's okay, Hazel!
It's okay.

00:34:40.203 --> 00:34:42.205
People have come
really far away

00:34:42.205 --> 00:34:43.873
from their relationship
with their food

00:34:43.873 --> 00:34:47.294
and with their relationship
with meat in particular.

00:34:51.965 --> 00:34:55.093
There is a disconnect
of understanding

00:34:55.093 --> 00:34:57.721
between land and animal.

00:35:03.643 --> 00:35:05.353
I have an argument
with people often about

00:35:05.353 --> 00:35:08.940
how the animals
are destroying the land

00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:13.653
and how terrible animals
are for our globe, right?

00:35:13.653 --> 00:35:15.822
And that's true to some degree,

00:35:15.822 --> 00:35:19.242
but it's because of the way
that we farm animals.

00:35:20.577 --> 00:35:23.371
Come on, come on!

00:35:23.371 --> 00:35:25.123
You go ahead! Go ahead!

00:35:25.123 --> 00:35:27.334
Here you go.
Here you go!

00:35:31.463 --> 00:35:34.758
Even farmers, we take animals
to the slaughter house,

00:35:34.758 --> 00:35:36.801
leave them there, they don't
see any of the process,

00:35:36.801 --> 00:35:38.803
they pick up
a package of meat.

00:35:40.638 --> 00:35:50.815
And that's the way
that it works.

00:35:50.815 --> 00:35:53.068
I think in bigger
processing plants, it's just:

00:35:53.068 --> 00:35:54.819
raise as many
animals as you can,

00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:56.237
get them as fat as you can,

00:35:56.237 --> 00:35:58.865
harvest them,
do it quickly, do it precisely,

00:35:58.865 --> 00:36:03.495
and there's not as much
human interaction.

00:36:04.162 --> 00:36:05.372
Here you go.

00:36:13.046 --> 00:36:14.255
And that kind of freaks me out.

00:36:14.255 --> 00:36:15.965
That feels very,
that feels like another way

00:36:15.965 --> 00:36:18.009
that we distance ourselves
from our food.

00:36:18.009 --> 00:36:20.553
That we say, "Oh, like,
this factory's going to do it,

00:36:20.553 --> 00:36:21.971
because I can't."

00:36:24.391 --> 00:36:28.395
(praying in Hebrew)

00:36:29.187 --> 00:36:33.191
(praying in Hebrew)

00:36:33.691 --> 00:36:35.902
Alright, dump it out.

00:36:35.902 --> 00:36:37.320
>> Dump it out.

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:41.157
>> Whoa! Nice.

00:36:42.867 --> 00:36:43.868
>> Wow!

00:36:43.868 --> 00:36:44.869
>> Whoa!

00:36:46.830 --> 00:36:48.039
Alright!

00:36:54.045 --> 00:36:56.464
What intention do you
want to put for this loaf?

00:36:57.048 --> 00:37:01.886
>> Okay for this loaf,
let's dedicate it to gratitude.

00:37:02.220 --> 00:37:05.849
My first piece of gratitude
is really simple.

00:37:07.225 --> 00:37:09.436
I'm just grateful to be alive.

00:37:12.647 --> 00:37:15.066
>> I'm really grateful for you.

00:37:15.066 --> 00:37:18.236
I... you know, having someone
to help support

00:37:18.236 --> 00:37:21.156
and also who cares so much.

00:37:21.156 --> 00:37:24.868
So passionate about
what they do,

00:37:24.868 --> 00:37:26.703
and inspires other people.

00:37:27.203 --> 00:37:31.583
>> Well, we have to
also remember, Simon.

00:37:31.583 --> 00:37:32.750
>> Simon.

00:37:32.750 --> 00:37:37.255 line:50%
>> Grateful for Simon because
he reminds me to play.

00:37:32.750 --> 00:37:37.255
>> Simon the dog.

00:37:37.255 --> 00:37:39.090
>> Grateful for shabat.

00:37:45.221 --> 00:37:47.432
>> These Finn potatoes
are so beautiful.

00:37:48.266 --> 00:37:50.310
For me, having
relationship with land

00:37:50.310 --> 00:37:53.229
and being so
close to what I'm doing

00:37:53.229 --> 00:37:55.982
gives me a totally
different perspective on

00:37:55.982 --> 00:37:57.901
buying food in the store.

00:37:57.901 --> 00:38:00.820
It makes me say, this thing
that cost me two dollars

00:38:00.820 --> 00:38:03.323
actually took a ton of work
to produce and to grow,

00:38:03.323 --> 00:38:05.825
and I have way more
gratitude for it.

00:38:05.825 --> 00:38:09.370
And eating food with gratitude
changes how you want to share it

00:38:09.370 --> 00:38:11.789
and it's not just a me,
me, me thing anymore.

00:38:11.789 --> 00:38:13.875
It's like, "Hey, I grew
all these cabbages

00:38:13.875 --> 00:38:15.043
and I have way too many!

00:38:15.043 --> 00:38:17.086
Let's share them,
let me feed you."

00:38:17.086 --> 00:38:19.088
And that knits people together.

00:38:24.302 --> 00:38:28.306
(praying in Hebrew)

00:38:30.725 --> 00:38:34.729
(praying in Hebrew)

00:38:40.318 --> 00:38:44.322
(praying in Hebrew)

00:38:50.328 --> 00:38:54.332
(praying in Hebrew)

00:38:58.336 --> 00:39:02.340 line:50%
(praying in Hebrew)

00:39:34.122 --> 00:39:35.915
I got my knife from the person

00:39:35.915 --> 00:39:38.626
who originally instructed me
in shechita,

00:39:38.626 --> 00:39:43.089
and he got it from somebody
who crafts them all by hand.

00:39:43.089 --> 00:39:46.134
And that person is
a shochet who I've been told

00:39:46.134 --> 00:39:49.387
is probably more on
the male-dominant side

00:39:49.387 --> 00:39:51.055
of saying, like,
"This is a male practice."

00:39:51.055 --> 00:39:53.266
And would be
probably horrified

00:39:53.266 --> 00:39:55.810
if he knew that
one of the knives he made was

00:39:55.810 --> 00:39:57.353
being used by
a woman shochet,

00:39:57.353 --> 00:39:59.188
and even that
there is a woman shochet.

00:39:59.188 --> 00:40:07.196
Like, it might just
totally stun him.

00:40:07.196 --> 00:40:09.407
But his
craftsmanship is amazing.

00:40:33.431 --> 00:40:37.435
(praying)

00:40:45.026 --> 00:40:47.195
And I also want to
welcome all of you.

00:40:47.195 --> 00:40:49.947
You know, this is really special
that each of you has said yes

00:40:49.947 --> 00:40:52.367
to come participate.

00:40:52.367 --> 00:40:53.951
I mean, I could totally
slaughter on my own,

00:40:53.951 --> 00:40:55.536
I could do kosher shechita,

00:40:55.536 --> 00:40:56.663
but it just wouldn't ripple

00:40:56.663 --> 00:40:58.498
out into the world
in the same way.

00:40:59.791 --> 00:41:02.085
This is a container
for everybody,

00:41:02.085 --> 00:41:04.337
and you can choose to
talk about it when you leave

00:41:04.337 --> 00:41:06.964
or you can just choose
not to talk about it.

00:41:09.092 --> 00:41:11.302
I find that after
a day of shechita,

00:41:11.302 --> 00:41:14.931
which is the Hebrew word
for slaughter,

00:41:14.931 --> 00:41:17.892
for ritual
slaughter specifically,

00:41:17.892 --> 00:41:20.728
I always find it's helpful to be
with water in some way.

00:41:20.853 --> 00:41:22.313
Definitely drinking
a lot of water,

00:41:22.313 --> 00:41:23.898
taking a hot bath,

00:41:24.649 --> 00:41:26.025
sitting by moving water.

00:41:26.025 --> 00:41:28.361
So thinking about
how you can kind of

00:41:28.361 --> 00:41:30.571
regulate your
nervous system afterwards

00:41:30.571 --> 00:41:32.573
is really helpful.

00:41:32.573 --> 00:41:35.535
And I'll be the first
to admit that this is really,

00:41:35.535 --> 00:41:37.203
this is a big deal.

00:41:37.203 --> 00:41:39.872
I don't take
performing death lightly

00:41:39.872 --> 00:41:42.542
and I'm really curious
from each of you

00:41:42.542 --> 00:41:45.545
what's bringing you,
what's drawing you to be here.

00:41:46.796 --> 00:41:49.382
I think it's really important
for people to share

00:41:49.382 --> 00:41:52.802
why they are called
to be part of the workshop.

00:41:54.387 --> 00:41:56.723
You know, if someone says
in the opening circle,

00:41:56.723 --> 00:41:57.890
"I'm kind of afraid of death,

00:41:57.890 --> 00:42:00.351
it's something
I don't explore a lot."

00:42:00.351 --> 00:42:03.020
And somebody else there says,
"Oh, I can relate,"

00:42:03.020 --> 00:42:07.150
then they have
immediate camaraderie.

00:42:07.150 --> 00:42:11.863
I think a lot of people who
don't have a spiritual practice,

00:42:11.863 --> 00:42:13.740
there's a longing
for intention,

00:42:13.740 --> 00:42:16.075
and I find it really meaningful

00:42:16.075 --> 00:42:17.577
if people can bring
something of themselves

00:42:17.577 --> 00:42:21.205
into this space
whether it's words or gratitude

00:42:21.205 --> 00:42:24.417
or some sort of smoke
offering or herbs.

00:42:24.417 --> 00:42:26.377
It connects people more
to what they're doing

00:42:26.377 --> 00:42:28.004
and why they're there.

00:42:30.548 --> 00:42:31.758
Come on in.

00:42:34.552 --> 00:42:38.556
(spiritual music)

00:42:51.402 --> 00:42:55.406
(praying in Hebrew)

00:43:11.923 --> 00:43:13.925
You can let him go,
you can let him go.

00:43:19.263 --> 00:43:20.681
It's okay.

00:43:24.602 --> 00:43:28.606
(spiritual music)

00:43:41.410 --> 00:43:46.249
Thank you,
dear ram, for your life.

00:43:50.294 --> 00:43:52.713
For offering yourself today.

00:43:53.881 --> 00:43:56.384
Thank you for helping
us to be connected to the land

00:43:56.384 --> 00:43:58.386
and to our ancestors.

00:43:59.345 --> 00:44:02.557
Thank you Mother Earth
for taking this offering.

00:44:06.644 --> 00:44:10.648
(suspenseful music)

00:44:45.683 --> 00:44:47.393
>> We were just really inspired

00:44:47.393 --> 00:44:51.898
to bring these skills
and teachings to people

00:44:51.898 --> 00:44:55.318
who often don't feel like they
have a place to come to learn

00:44:55.318 --> 00:44:58.195
and relearn these skills
that were often taken

00:44:58.195 --> 00:45:01.616
especially from Black and Brown
bodies and cultures.

00:45:03.200 --> 00:45:07.622
So we knew
a friend of ours, Tzuria, who,

00:45:08.706 --> 00:45:11.626 line:20%
she like specializes
in kosher slaughter

00:45:11.792 --> 00:45:14.587 line:20%
and she's an incredible
woman who's been

00:45:14.587 --> 00:45:18.591 line:20%
really honing her ancestral
tradition of kosher slaughter.

00:45:22.970 --> 00:45:26.390
Part of Queer Nature is wanting
to create more of a narrative

00:45:26.390 --> 00:45:28.476
around queers
in outdoor spaces

00:45:28.476 --> 00:45:30.019
and in rural spaces.

00:45:30.019 --> 00:45:33.064
Safer than a lot of spaces that
my generation grew up with,

00:45:33.064 --> 00:45:35.942 line:20%
like, that were avenues
to learn these skills

00:45:35.942 --> 00:45:38.486 line:20%
such as Boy Scouts
or Girl Scouts,

00:45:38.486 --> 00:45:42.114 line:20%
the military, hunting,
rural hunting cultures.

00:45:50.247 --> 00:45:53.709
There is a tight knit
around who gets to do this

00:45:53.709 --> 00:45:55.544
and who's allowed.

00:45:56.754 --> 00:46:00.257
Being a woman
coming into this male practice

00:46:00.257 --> 00:46:02.885
is really scary.

00:46:05.763 --> 00:46:09.767
(suspenseful music)

00:46:12.770 --> 00:46:17.191
There is a disconnect based
on gender, based on religion,

00:46:17.191 --> 00:46:22.947
that says, "Oh you're different,
I'm going to keep you out."

00:46:22.947 --> 00:46:25.783
My perspective is
no, we should bring everyone in,

00:46:25.783 --> 00:46:28.577
because this is not just
a Jewish practice.

00:46:28.577 --> 00:46:31.372
This is a really,
really interesting, to me,

00:46:31.372 --> 00:46:35.584
an ethical way to process meat
and so I want to share it.

00:46:39.505 --> 00:46:41.674
>> The land reproduces itself.

00:46:41.674 --> 00:46:44.885
The land itself
is a means of reproduction.

00:46:44.885 --> 00:46:48.139 line:20%
The goal of,
in international development,

00:46:48.139 --> 00:46:50.266 line:20%
in every place

00:46:50.266 --> 00:46:53.394 line:20%
where capitalism
is alive and breathing.

00:46:53.394 --> 00:46:55.521 line:20%
Is that you have to
separate people from the land

00:46:55.521 --> 00:46:58.649
so that they're
dependent on you for money.

00:46:58.649 --> 00:47:01.444
And so then they have to
work for you, for money,

00:47:01.444 --> 00:47:04.447
instead of being able to grow
for them for sustenance.

00:47:06.991 --> 00:47:10.911
Actually taking back the land
and actually being, like,

00:47:10.911 --> 00:47:13.205
"I got this!"
(laughing)

00:47:13.205 --> 00:47:15.958
The most
radical thing you can do

00:47:15.958 --> 00:47:18.169
is know how to
butcher an animal.

00:47:18.252 --> 00:47:20.129
>> Woah. Backwards.

00:47:20.129 --> 00:47:23.215
Does anyone feel drawn
so that you wanna do that?

00:47:23.215 --> 00:47:27.261 line:50%
Put your left fingers in
and then like this.

00:47:23.215 --> 00:47:27.261
>> Left hand in.

00:47:27.261 --> 00:47:30.056
Okay, that feels awkward, so
clearly I'm not doing it right.

00:47:30.056 --> 00:47:31.974
>> The first piece is only
something I can do,

00:47:31.974 --> 00:47:33.976
I'm the only one
with that really sharp knife.

00:47:37.021 --> 00:47:38.522
Then when people
start to work with their hands

00:47:38.522 --> 00:47:41.317
it changes their experience.

00:47:43.444 --> 00:47:44.653
If you want to get in here

00:47:44.653 --> 00:47:46.155
before we like,
pull everything out...

00:47:46.155 --> 00:47:48.908
>> Yeah!

00:47:48.908 --> 00:47:50.451
Often times it's the community

00:47:50.451 --> 00:47:52.578
that all gets engaged
in something,

00:47:52.578 --> 00:47:54.997
there's a lot of
power in that.

00:47:57.833 --> 00:47:59.877
People are interested in
trying the heart also?

00:47:59.877 --> 00:48:01.504 line:50%
>> Yeah!

00:47:59.877 --> 00:48:01.504
>> Okay!

00:48:14.308 --> 00:48:15.684
>> This is really gamey.

00:48:15.684 --> 00:48:16.602
>> Is that the liver?

00:48:16.602 --> 00:48:20.106
>> Yeah! Ooh, that was...

00:48:20.106 --> 00:48:21.941
>> Do you need some water?

00:48:21.941 --> 00:48:24.777
(laughing)
You're good?

00:48:25.277 --> 00:48:29.323
>> I wasn't expecting it to
taste like an animal.

00:48:29.323 --> 00:48:31.158
(laughing)

00:48:33.077 --> 00:48:34.203
>> As someone who

00:48:34.203 --> 00:48:36.997
previously didn't eat meat
for several years

00:48:36.997 --> 00:48:39.125
I didn't really know
how to be accountable

00:48:39.125 --> 00:48:42.336
and in relationship and I didn't
know what that looked like.

00:48:44.296 --> 00:48:46.048
As I started to eat meat again,

00:48:46.048 --> 00:48:49.301
I realized that it was truly a
practice of accountability

00:48:49.301 --> 00:48:53.055
to, like, take a life
and to ingest it

00:48:53.055 --> 00:48:56.350
and also to be like, wow,
I want to live with dignity

00:48:56.350 --> 00:48:59.145
and walk honourably
while having

00:48:59.145 --> 00:49:00.980
eaten, like, an ancestor.

00:49:01.355 --> 00:49:03.774
So, see how the fascia
began to come off

00:49:03.774 --> 00:49:06.235
and you can
actually see the tendon,

00:49:06.235 --> 00:49:07.945 line:50%
it's really deep in there.

00:49:06.235 --> 00:49:07.945
>> That is gorgeous.

00:49:07.945 --> 00:49:08.946
>> It's really beautiful.

00:49:08.946 --> 00:49:11.031
>> I would love
a pun about sinews.

00:49:11.031 --> 00:49:13.701 line:50%
>> What, a pun?

00:49:11.031 --> 00:49:13.701
>> A pun! A sinew pun.

00:49:13.701 --> 00:49:16.328
>> You have to be really smart
to make a good pun.

00:49:16.328 --> 00:49:17.872
>> What are you trying to
in-sinew-ate?

00:49:17.872 --> 00:49:19.165
>> Yeah!
(laughing)

00:49:19.165 --> 00:49:21.041
>> Oh, good!

00:49:21.041 --> 00:49:24.587
That was really good.

00:49:24.587 --> 00:49:27.256
It takes me like,
a whole day.

00:49:27.256 --> 00:49:28.174
A whole week.

00:49:28.174 --> 00:49:29.592
So do y'all want to touch it?

00:49:30.384 --> 00:49:32.386
You can eat it.

00:49:32.386 --> 00:49:34.305
Yeah, maybe we do
the other side like...

00:49:34.305 --> 00:49:36.724
>> Growing up I remember

00:49:36.724 --> 00:49:39.310
being in eighth grade
and that was when

00:49:39.310 --> 00:49:42.730
Matthew Shepard
was murdered in Wyoming and,

00:49:43.689 --> 00:49:46.775
and then like,
I think the next year,

00:49:46.775 --> 00:49:48.694
that film
Boys Don't Cry came out

00:49:48.694 --> 00:49:52.114
which was like this kind of
biographical film about

00:49:52.114 --> 00:49:56.118
Brandon Teena, this trans man
I think in Nebraska

00:49:56.118 --> 00:49:58.954
who was also killed
in a hate crime.

00:50:00.748 --> 00:50:03.167
This area, you know,
it's a really rural culture

00:50:03.167 --> 00:50:05.794
that also is
pretty conservative.

00:50:06.462 --> 00:50:10.341
That can really be dominated
by this colonial mentality

00:50:10.341 --> 00:50:15.179
towards the land and towards
space and towards bodies.

00:50:16.764 --> 00:50:19.099
I feel like
I did witness, growing up,

00:50:19.099 --> 00:50:21.435
that there was
this kind of ambient message

00:50:21.435 --> 00:50:25.940
like we're not
really safe in rural spaces.

00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:28.275
And then also seeing
the implicit messages

00:50:28.275 --> 00:50:31.612
in the representations of like
who is a survivalist,

00:50:31.612 --> 00:50:33.572
who is sort of
an outdoors person

00:50:33.572 --> 00:50:35.407
or a woodsman.

00:50:36.325 --> 00:50:38.953
Just seeing how masculine
those archetypes were

00:50:38.953 --> 00:50:41.455
and that they were
representing cisgender

00:50:41.455 --> 00:50:43.290
heterosexual white men.

00:50:43.874 --> 00:50:45.042
>> Slippery!

00:50:45.042 --> 00:50:46.752
>> Boing!

00:50:46.752 --> 00:50:47.753
>>  Leg.

00:50:54.134 --> 00:50:55.761
>> Like, this seems to be
doing something.

00:50:55.761 --> 00:50:58.138
>> Oh, you're just like
separating the meat from it?

00:50:58.138 --> 00:50:59.556
>> Yeah, I guess. I mean,

00:50:59.556 --> 00:51:02.726
I feel like there's a way
but I don't know what it is.

00:51:02.726 --> 00:51:06.522
When we were over there
and like the slaughter happened,

00:51:06.522 --> 00:51:08.857
like my expectation of it
was completely different.

00:51:08.857 --> 00:51:10.901
Like I thought it
was going to be way more violent

00:51:10.901 --> 00:51:14.863
and, like,
a lot scarier and everything.

00:51:14.863 --> 00:51:19.159
And like now to understand
like what actually happened

00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:22.246
I don't feel weird
like touching this meat

00:51:22.246 --> 00:51:26.333
and, like... I don't know,
using it to explore it.

00:51:26.333 --> 00:51:28.252
It makes, it just makes
more sense to me

00:51:28.252 --> 00:51:31.964
instead of like imagining
the worst happening.

00:51:31.964 --> 00:51:33.173
>> Mhmm.

00:51:35.009 --> 00:51:38.846
>> The act of conscious farming
is a way of saying,

00:51:38.846 --> 00:51:42.057
that you can't take
my identity as a human,

00:51:42.057 --> 00:51:43.892
as a person
connected to this earth.

00:51:43.892 --> 00:51:47.563
Like, this is, this is my right
to be in relationship

00:51:47.563 --> 00:51:49.315
directly with Mother Earth.

00:51:49.315 --> 00:51:52.234
Whether it's plants
or animals or bees,

00:51:52.234 --> 00:51:54.194
it's just about
the relationship.

00:51:54.194 --> 00:51:56.905
It's actually not
that complicated.

00:51:56.905 --> 00:51:58.365
Oh, this is
something happening.

00:51:58.365 --> 00:52:01.994
This came off
like how I imagined it.

00:52:01.994 --> 00:52:04.204
>> Cool, that's the part
that I just took off too.

00:52:05.122 --> 00:52:07.333 line:50%
Alright, we got this.

00:52:05.122 --> 00:52:07.333
>>You know.

00:52:07.333 --> 00:52:09.335
>> This just might be
a natural thing.

00:52:09.335 --> 00:52:12.129
>> Totally. Way easier
than you expect it to be.

00:52:12.129 --> 00:52:13.547
>> Yeah!

00:52:25.476 --> 00:52:27.895
>> Being spiritual is universal.

00:52:29.146 --> 00:52:32.024
For the land is, is ancient.

00:52:32.024 --> 00:52:35.152
It's our kupuna,
it is our ancestor.

00:52:35.152 --> 00:52:38.113
All of the people
that we descend from

00:52:38.113 --> 00:52:40.157
are now of the earth.

00:52:40.157 --> 00:52:41.283
So when we
connect to the earth,

00:52:41.283 --> 00:52:45.079
you're not connecting just to
minerals, water and oxygen.

00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.790
You're connecting to
your ancestors.

00:52:47.790 --> 00:52:50.751
So being spiritual
kind of like opens that gateway,

00:52:50.751 --> 00:52:53.170
right, brings you
close to them.

00:52:54.588 --> 00:52:58.592
The military occupies about
seventy percent of Lualualei.

00:52:58.592 --> 00:53:01.178
Lualualei is 14,000 acres.

00:53:01.178 --> 00:53:02.721
You see these
tall, little antennas

00:53:02.721 --> 00:53:05.182
that's all part of
the land, right?

00:53:05.182 --> 00:53:06.600
Back in the day,

00:53:06.600 --> 00:53:10.270
families lived in all
these little sub valleys

00:53:10.270 --> 00:53:12.106
because there was water.

00:53:12.106 --> 00:53:15.776
Since the military occupied it,
they tapped into that water,

00:53:15.776 --> 00:53:17.820
preventing it from
flowing out here,

00:53:17.820 --> 00:53:21.782
which dried out
our perennial streams.

00:53:21.782 --> 00:53:24.076
This mountain
is called Heleakala

00:53:24.076 --> 00:53:28.539
and culturally, a demi-god Maui
climbed that mountain,

00:53:28.539 --> 00:53:30.165
slowed down the sun

00:53:30.165 --> 00:53:33.585
so that his mother
could dry her clothing.

00:53:33.585 --> 00:53:36.964
It's a mo'olelo, or a story,
that is significant

00:53:36.964 --> 00:53:39.967
because it's you know,
in Wai'anae,

00:53:39.967 --> 00:53:42.636
it's in the mouth
of Wai'anae, Lualualei.

00:53:42.636 --> 00:53:43.887
And they want to
create a dump

00:53:43.887 --> 00:53:47.141
right in front of this mountain.

00:53:47.141 --> 00:53:49.893
Mountains play a significant
role in terms of, like,

00:53:49.893 --> 00:53:52.104
environmental changes.

00:53:52.104 --> 00:53:55.107
You know, when it gets
more hot during climate change,

00:53:55.107 --> 00:53:57.484
we're going to rely on our
mountains to capture the clouds,

00:53:57.484 --> 00:54:01.113
the moisture, give us shade,
protect us from the wind.

00:54:01.113 --> 00:54:03.323
An entity
that we should respect.

00:54:05.576 --> 00:54:07.536
>> So these are curry leaves.

00:54:07.536 --> 00:54:08.745
Can you grab that.

00:54:11.248 --> 00:54:12.749
So the reason why
I grab it like this

00:54:12.749 --> 00:54:15.586
is because it keeps
it nice in a bunch like that.

00:54:18.172 --> 00:54:22.009
>> The level of spirituality
that exists in this space

00:54:22.009 --> 00:54:24.636
is very different
from my own home.

00:54:25.345 --> 00:54:28.807
Just because something
is known scientifically

00:54:28.807 --> 00:54:31.185
or known ethically
doesn't necessarily mean

00:54:31.185 --> 00:54:34.438
that it's rooted in
that deeper spiritual sense.

00:54:34.438 --> 00:54:35.522
And I think that is something

00:54:35.522 --> 00:54:37.816
that has to come
from a community,

00:54:37.816 --> 00:54:39.193
and that is something that

00:54:39.193 --> 00:54:41.278
I've learned from this,
from these people

00:54:41.278 --> 00:54:43.614
and from this land that

00:54:43.614 --> 00:54:47.784
spirituality also is something
that comes from ancestry.

00:54:47.784 --> 00:54:50.746
And it's, it's far beyond

00:54:50.746 --> 00:54:52.831
what you're doing
in your current present.

00:54:52.831 --> 00:54:56.168
It's like almost
paying respect to

00:54:56.168 --> 00:54:57.419
everyone who's come before you

00:54:57.419 --> 00:54:59.213
that's allowed you
to be in this space.

00:54:59.213 --> 00:55:01.840
And I can't think of anything
that's more spiritual

00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:04.468
than that, that understanding of

00:55:04.468 --> 00:55:07.095
this place in time
that you represent,

00:55:07.095 --> 00:55:09.306
and where it's been
and where it moves forward.

00:55:09.306 --> 00:55:12.017
I mean, that's like,
that blew my mind.

00:55:12.017 --> 00:55:15.729
So, yeah, spiritual I think has
been the deepest teachings,

00:55:15.729 --> 00:55:17.272
and then, of course,

00:55:17.272 --> 00:55:20.275
I've learned how to drive a
tractor and all that good stuff.

00:55:20.275 --> 00:55:22.486
All the fun things too, yeah.

00:55:28.158 --> 00:55:32.162
(singing Hawaiian song)

00:55:43.340 --> 00:55:47.344
(singing Hawaiian song)

00:55:53.350 --> 00:55:57.354
(singing Hawaiian song)

00:56:05.571 --> 00:56:07.531
>> This is a list
of our co-producers.

00:56:07.531 --> 00:56:10.033
And then... the term
I use is co-producer

00:56:10.033 --> 00:56:13.203
is because they're not
just customers to us.

00:56:13.203 --> 00:56:14.580
This kind of thing,
it's just partnership

00:56:14.580 --> 00:56:15.998
and it's relationship.

00:56:16.999 --> 00:56:19.585
I've been working here
for eleven years.

00:56:19.585 --> 00:56:23.171
Yeah, so I started back
in 2008 as an intern.

00:56:23.171 --> 00:56:25.048
Initially I came
here just as a way—

00:56:25.048 --> 00:56:26.300
I needed a way
to go to college, yeah.

00:56:26.300 --> 00:56:29.386
>> Fun fact, when he started on
the farm I was ten years old.

00:56:29.386 --> 00:56:31.597
>> Oh yeah, she always
says that to me.

00:56:31.597 --> 00:56:38.812
(laughing)

00:56:38.812 --> 00:56:42.316
>> How does the military
occupation cordoning off

00:56:42.316 --> 00:56:45.986
natural resources preventing,
you know, public entry,

00:56:45.986 --> 00:56:47.112
how does that make me feel?

00:56:47.112 --> 00:56:51.116
Wow, that makes me feel like,
like enraged.

00:56:51.116 --> 00:56:55.203
That makes me wanna, like,
do violent things, right?

00:56:55.203 --> 00:56:58.540
Like burn their
ammunition depot

00:56:58.540 --> 00:57:00.500
and set this place on fire.

00:57:00.500 --> 00:57:02.377
But at the same time,

00:57:02.377 --> 00:57:04.755
that's not going to
solve anything.

00:57:04.755 --> 00:57:06.632
So right now,
how does that make me feel?

00:57:06.632 --> 00:57:08.884
It makes
me feel excited. Amped.

00:57:08.884 --> 00:57:12.054
For, to know that what I'm doing
here on MA'O Organic Farms

00:57:12.054 --> 00:57:13.764
is basically anti-that.

00:57:13.764 --> 00:57:16.391
Whatever that is,
we are going against that

00:57:16.391 --> 00:57:20.020
in a more righteous way,
not really violent.

00:57:21.146 --> 00:57:22.189
So it makes me amped.

00:57:22.189 --> 00:57:24.107
You know,
we're right here between,

00:57:24.107 --> 00:57:26.693
like I said, military occupation
and land desecration

00:57:26.693 --> 00:57:30.405
and we're like sticking eloquent
middle fingers to both sides.

00:57:30.405 --> 00:57:33.200
And we're growing
veggies and youth!

00:57:33.200 --> 00:57:35.035
So yeah, it makes me amped.

00:57:38.455 --> 00:57:42.459
(upbeat music)

00:57:53.470 --> 00:57:57.474
(singing Hawaiian song)

00:58:01.895 --> 00:58:04.064
>> So we're, we moved
from a context of living

00:58:04.064 --> 00:58:07.067
in deep relationship and like
a symbiosis with the land,

00:58:07.067 --> 00:58:08.735
and then we were housed.

00:58:08.735 --> 00:58:11.279
And once you were
housed in parcels

00:58:11.279 --> 00:58:13.740
that you don't have that type
of connection to each other,

00:58:13.740 --> 00:58:15.492
you don't have connection
to your landscape,

00:58:15.492 --> 00:58:17.536
you don't have connection
to meaningful employment,

00:58:17.536 --> 00:58:18.704
no meaningful education,

00:58:18.704 --> 00:58:20.497
you create something
really specific.

00:58:20.497 --> 00:58:21.915
You create poverty.

00:58:23.500 --> 00:58:26.503
(singing Hawaiian song)

00:58:27.921 --> 00:58:30.257
And then when poverty
lives in a family

00:58:30.257 --> 00:58:31.633
for more than one generation,

00:58:31.633 --> 00:58:33.343
you normalize the poverty.

00:58:33.343 --> 00:58:35.762
And if it stays there for
a collective and community,

00:58:35.762 --> 00:58:37.305
the community
normalizes poverty,

00:58:37.305 --> 00:58:38.640
and then
we become poor,

00:58:38.640 --> 00:58:40.684
and we identify
as being poor,

00:58:40.684 --> 00:58:42.519
and that's what it means
to be Hawaiian.

00:58:45.731 --> 00:58:48.024
The importance of
restoring our practice

00:58:48.024 --> 00:58:52.863
starts first from a sense
of cultural identity,

00:58:53.613 --> 00:58:56.742
but if it doesn't move
quickly to restoring agency,

00:58:56.742 --> 00:58:59.619
to regaining
executive control of our water,

00:58:59.619 --> 00:59:02.247
of our people,
and of our food production,

00:59:02.247 --> 00:59:04.499
then it just
stays this esoteric idea

00:59:04.499 --> 00:59:07.502
that maybe the Hawaiians who
went to college benefit from.

00:59:09.171 --> 00:59:11.590
But at the end of the day,
everyone has to eat.

00:59:20.557 --> 00:59:24.561
(singing and drumming)

00:59:50.587 --> 00:59:54.591
(singing and drumming)

01:00:07.813 --> 01:00:11.191
>> I started like every
all the kids around here like,

01:00:11.191 --> 01:00:12.567
like as soon as we could walk,
I guess,

01:00:12.567 --> 01:00:13.693
we were taught to follow

01:00:13.693 --> 01:00:15.946
and go and watch
our grandparents

01:00:15.946 --> 01:00:17.322
and my parents.

01:00:17.322 --> 01:00:20.534 line:20%
And that's where,
just by watching, I learned to,

01:00:20.534 --> 01:00:22.994 line:20%
and it just sticks in the mind,
so when I got old enough,

01:00:22.994 --> 01:00:26.039 line:20%
I know how to cut it myself,
prepare it, and put it away.

01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:28.208 line:20%
But I remember as a
small little boy there,

01:00:28.208 --> 01:00:29.709
my grandparents
had a smokehouse

01:00:29.709 --> 01:00:31.336
and they always did fish

01:00:31.336 --> 01:00:33.672
and lived off
themselves to the land.

01:00:33.672 --> 01:00:35.882
So that's where my
earliest memory comes to mind,

01:00:35.882 --> 01:00:38.301
I guess, like maybe
two, three years old.

01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:44.307
I've never been
further than Yellowknife.

01:00:45.892 --> 01:00:47.519
Small town boy.

01:00:52.148 --> 01:00:55.151 line:50%
I'll start grabbing
the net then.

01:00:52.148 --> 01:00:55.151
>> Yeah!

01:00:55.151 --> 01:00:57.153
>> I love my hometown, Tuk.

01:00:57.153 --> 01:01:00.323 line:50%
We live right off
the Beaufort Sea.

01:01:00.323 --> 01:01:03.493
We're known as Siglit,
it means "People off the Coast,"

01:01:03.493 --> 01:01:05.495
that's what they call us.

01:01:07.747 --> 01:01:10.083
Our lifestyle
is to live off the land

01:01:10.083 --> 01:01:13.712
and we are rich people.

01:01:18.592 --> 01:01:20.051
The main thing to be taught

01:01:20.051 --> 01:01:22.679
is the directions:
north, south, west, east.

01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:24.431
You've got to learn
all the landmarks,

01:01:24.431 --> 01:01:26.850
like the little hills,
the creeks.

01:01:29.269 --> 01:01:30.270
There's people that teach you

01:01:30.270 --> 01:01:32.188
and you've just got to
learn, listen.

01:01:32.188 --> 01:01:33.982
Main thing is just
listen and watch

01:01:33.982 --> 01:01:37.611
and you'll know where to go
to get your traditional foods.

01:01:44.451 --> 01:01:48.288
For ground beef here,
just for one pound it costs

01:01:48.288 --> 01:01:50.707
thirteen to fourteen dollars.

01:01:53.585 --> 01:01:56.630
And if you catch a fish
it's not free, but a lot cheaper

01:01:56.630 --> 01:01:58.840
and it's just
a lot better, yeah.

01:02:04.971 --> 01:02:07.641
We usually start
from the end of July,

01:02:07.641 --> 01:02:09.976
but this year,
climate changes,

01:02:09.976 --> 01:02:12.103
the fish came in two weeks early
so it started, like,

01:02:12.103 --> 01:02:14.522
the first week in July.

01:02:14.522 --> 01:02:17.484
Could get like um,
five fish only a day

01:02:17.484 --> 01:02:21.321
right up to like 85 fish
caught in a net, so...

01:02:23.823 --> 01:02:25.408
All I can say
is about what I know

01:02:25.408 --> 01:02:27.911
and my own knowledge is that

01:02:27.911 --> 01:02:31.790
we've just got to really
protect our land and our food.

01:02:31.790 --> 01:02:33.291
That's a big part of our,

01:02:33.291 --> 01:02:35.293
that's what we're
worried about too, yes.

01:02:37.587 --> 01:02:42.217
>> For me when I was raising
my kids up I couldn't tell,

01:02:43.176 --> 01:02:46.262
how it would be in twenty years.

01:02:46.262 --> 01:02:50.392
But I lived
long enough to know-

01:02:50.392 --> 01:02:52.394
things happen.

01:02:54.521 --> 01:02:58.733
Thirty years I've been
out on land with family.

01:03:00.443 --> 01:03:03.446
The land that
snow is always falling,

01:03:04.197 --> 01:03:08.994
now it's soft, soft.

01:03:08.994 --> 01:03:11.079
An elder would say,

01:03:11.079 --> 01:03:13.790 line:20%
scientists would know
what's going on

01:03:13.790 --> 01:03:17.002 line:20%
but they won't tell us,
because we already know.

01:03:29.806 --> 01:03:33.810
(dramatic music)

01:03:58.668 --> 01:04:02.589
>> All of our fresh produce
is trucked up.

01:04:02.589 --> 01:04:05.717
It might still
look fresh but it's,

01:04:05.717 --> 01:04:08.720
it's been travelling
for weeks already.

01:04:10.013 --> 01:04:12.474
The cost of junk food here

01:04:12.474 --> 01:04:14.684 line:20%
it's cheaper to go and buy
processed foods

01:04:14.684 --> 01:04:18.772 line:20%
than it is to actually
to buy the ingredients

01:04:18.772 --> 01:04:21.399 line:20%
you need to cook
healthy home meals.

01:04:21.858 --> 01:04:23.985
Thirty-five dollars
for a bag of flour

01:04:23.985 --> 01:04:27.614
and yet that's something
people need daily here.

01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:32.952
If people had their own gardens,
they would save a lot of money.

01:04:32.952 --> 01:04:35.538 line:20%
And now I think
they're starting to see

01:04:35.538 --> 01:04:37.540 line:20%
that it can actually be done.

01:04:50.845 --> 01:04:51.888 line:50%
>> Hey!

01:04:50.845 --> 01:04:51.888
>> Hey, Ray!

01:04:51.888 --> 01:04:53.056 line:50%
>> How's it going?

01:04:51.888 --> 01:04:53.056
>> Good.

01:04:53.056 --> 01:04:55.308
>> Good to see you.

01:04:55.308 --> 01:04:57.894 line:50%
Welcome to summer
in Invuik, hey?

01:04:55.308 --> 01:04:57.894
>> Yeah!

01:04:57.894 --> 01:04:59.604
>> I'm just trying to figure out
what to do with this plot

01:04:59.604 --> 01:05:01.815
it was getting
completely waterlogged...

01:05:02.023 --> 01:05:04.943 line:50%
>> Oh, right on,
right under where it's dripping!

01:05:02.023 --> 01:05:04.943
>>Because of this amazing rain,
I know.

01:05:04.943 --> 01:05:06.736
This is not how August
is supposed to be, is it?

01:05:06.736 --> 01:05:08.863 line:50%
>> Could you just like,
move it over.

01:05:06.736 --> 01:05:08.863
>> I tried.

01:05:08.863 --> 01:05:11.783
I tried to, like...
It's not going anywhere.

01:05:12.325 --> 01:05:14.536
Oh maybe.
Oh, that's a good idea.

01:05:16.788 --> 01:05:18.331
Arctic problems, right?

01:05:18.331 --> 01:05:19.624
Ready, one, two, three!

01:05:19.624 --> 01:05:21.459
We're sitting here in August
and it's four degrees

01:05:21.459 --> 01:05:24.963
and it'll get up to about twelve
degrees in the greenhouse today.

01:05:24.963 --> 01:05:28.424 line:20%
We also have the major issue of
twenty-four hours of sunlight.

01:05:28.424 --> 01:05:30.343 line:20%
And while this can
also be a benefit,

01:05:30.343 --> 01:05:31.761 line:20%
it's a bit of a curse.

01:05:32.595 --> 01:05:35.014
Everything needs to sleep,
including your tomatoes.

01:05:35.014 --> 01:05:37.433
So it's very difficult for
gardeners to adapt

01:05:37.433 --> 01:05:41.896
to a situation where their
plants are growing very rapidly.

01:05:41.896 --> 01:05:43.773
And also, the fact
that we're in the Arctic

01:05:43.773 --> 01:05:46.151
and people
who live in this region,

01:05:46.151 --> 01:05:47.569
gardening wasn't
their way of life,

01:05:47.569 --> 01:05:49.320
and if it was
part of their life,

01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:51.823
potentially was a part of their
life from the residential school

01:05:51.823 --> 01:05:53.825
and may have had
a negative connotation.

01:05:54.367 --> 01:05:57.370
>> Oh my, look!

01:05:57.996 --> 01:05:59.956 line:50%
>> Look at this corn.

01:05:57.996 --> 01:05:59.956
>> Yeah!

01:05:59.956 --> 01:06:01.249
>> I'm pretty psyched
about having, like,

01:06:01.249 --> 01:06:03.376
a good corn harvest
in Inuvik this year.

01:06:03.376 --> 01:06:06.796
>> Yeah, like, we have,
we have peas with a lot  of,

01:06:06.796 --> 01:06:09.591 line:50%
yeah, and all
the plots are all mixed.

01:06:06.796 --> 01:06:09.591
>> That's awesome.

01:06:09.591 --> 01:06:12.719
>> They're all— we put things
wherever we could fit things.

01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:13.720
>> Okay. And are you getting...

01:06:13.720 --> 01:06:15.180
Rabecca has been
with us for two years

01:06:15.180 --> 01:06:17.974
as a coordinator
in Tuktoyaktuk,

01:06:17.974 --> 01:06:22.020
and I think that the potential
for the community of Tuktoyaktuk

01:06:22.020 --> 01:06:24.022
to be able to produce
more of their own vegetables

01:06:24.022 --> 01:06:26.191
and more fresh food
is really there

01:06:26.191 --> 01:06:28.193
because of people
like Rabecca.

01:06:29.277 --> 01:06:33.239
>> I would really like to see
another greenhouse set up

01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:35.366
in Reindeer Point,
that's just like,

01:06:35.366 --> 01:06:37.285 line:50%
the outskirts of Tuk.

01:06:35.366 --> 01:06:37.285
>> That's a good idea.

01:06:37.285 --> 01:06:40.079
>> I think it would be really
neat for them to have something

01:06:40.079 --> 01:06:42.665
like a community garden
to look forward to

01:06:42.665 --> 01:06:44.250
and to work towards out there.

01:06:44.250 --> 01:06:46.294
All they say is, we just need
someone to teach us

01:06:46.294 --> 01:06:48.087
so we can do it, you know.

01:06:48.087 --> 01:06:49.505
>> A lot of people say,
"Well, we're not farmers."

01:06:49.505 --> 01:06:52.091
But no, Indigenous people
in the small communities

01:06:52.091 --> 01:06:53.718
are survivors.

01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:57.347
People that are seeing changes
to their harvesting techniques

01:06:57.347 --> 01:06:59.182
from animals
are able to then supplement

01:06:59.182 --> 01:07:03.102
some of the food their
harvesting by growing their own.

01:07:03.102 --> 01:07:04.687
And a lot of that comes
from climate change,

01:07:04.687 --> 01:07:06.147
from the changes
that are coming

01:07:06.147 --> 01:07:07.523 line:50%
to the animals
that are out there

01:07:07.523 --> 01:07:08.775
but also the changes
that are coming

01:07:08.775 --> 01:07:10.610
that allow for more growth.

01:07:11.611 --> 01:07:14.822 line:50%
>> Mmm! This is so good.

01:07:11.611 --> 01:07:14.822
(Raygan laughing)

01:07:14.822 --> 01:07:17.450
>> I know, right?
They're amazing.

01:07:21.037 --> 01:07:25.041
(singing and drumming)

01:07:35.301 --> 01:07:37.136
>> Wait, Jerri!

01:07:38.054 --> 01:07:41.474
I'll go check and see
if they're all done right.

01:07:42.642 --> 01:07:44.102
I wasn't born in a hospital.

01:07:44.102 --> 01:07:46.938
No, I was born in a tent,-

01:07:48.982 --> 01:07:51.985
about ten miles from Tuk.

01:07:51.985 --> 01:07:56.239
Them days we were taught to
be aware of our surroundings.

01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:59.993
You make sure it's nice
and not tangled.

01:07:59.993 --> 01:08:01.619 line:50%
>> Not tangled up.

01:07:59.993 --> 01:08:01.619
>> Your float's up.

01:08:01.619 --> 01:08:05.248 line:50%
>>  Nice and slow, no rush.

01:08:01.619 --> 01:08:05.248
>> Yup.

01:08:05.248 --> 01:08:06.874
Keep pulling!

01:08:06.874 --> 01:08:09.168
When the missionaries
came in,

01:08:09.168 --> 01:08:12.964 line:50%
the RCMP,
oil companies

01:08:12.964 --> 01:08:15.967
were running
through our territory,

01:08:15.967 --> 01:08:19.387
damaging our land, animals.

01:08:21.097 --> 01:08:23.308
There was a lot of
influence on us

01:08:23.308 --> 01:08:26.519
that pushed us away
from our place.

01:08:27.979 --> 01:08:30.189
I just go like this.

01:08:30.189 --> 01:08:33.818
Once, one tie.

01:08:36.821 --> 01:08:40.033 line:20%
Then we got to wait for
the net to catch fish.

01:08:40.033 --> 01:08:41.868 line:20%
>> Yeah! So how long
do you think it's going to take

01:08:41.868 --> 01:08:44.370 line:20%
for us to catch fish?

01:08:41.868 --> 01:08:44.370 line:20%
>> Usually takes me ten minutes.

01:08:44.370 --> 01:08:46.789
>> Ten minutes?
Wow, that's not too bad.

01:08:49.792 --> 01:08:51.711
>> They did a lot
of exploration.

01:08:51.711 --> 01:08:55.715
Seismic exploration,
now this: explosion.

01:08:56.716 --> 01:08:59.552
I used to work at the old
Hudson Bay Company at that time.

01:08:59.552 --> 01:09:03.306
Every day after school,
you could feel the rattling,

01:09:03.306 --> 01:09:06.476
or see the rattling,
of dishes in the old Hudson Bay

01:09:06.476 --> 01:09:08.311
because of that.

01:09:09.854 --> 01:09:12.857
That year
we only got one whale.

01:09:12.857 --> 01:09:15.860
There was a lot of
dead fish on the shoreline.

01:09:18.613 --> 01:09:22.825
Wild Life, Land Use and all
that, really affected us.

01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:25.787
And then it takes
years to come back.

01:09:29.290 --> 01:09:33.294
All this part here
is coming off.

01:09:33.294 --> 01:09:35.004
This is already falling.

01:09:35.004 --> 01:09:38.216
>> Yeah, you could
see that on this side.

01:09:38.216 --> 01:09:41.302
>> All the ocean
movements we have,

01:09:41.302 --> 01:09:45.014
changing our land, shoreline.

01:09:45.014 --> 01:09:48.351
So every spring we
have to come in

01:09:48.351 --> 01:09:50.269
by, way out by the ice,

01:09:50.269 --> 01:09:55.191
oceanside, to come in
because shoreline's really thin.

01:09:55.191 --> 01:09:56.567
You could fall
right through, eh?

01:09:56.567 --> 01:10:00.405
>> And that current must be
ever-changing this point here.

01:10:00.405 --> 01:10:01.906
>> Yeah.

01:10:01.906 --> 01:10:02.907
>> And what do you,

01:10:02.907 --> 01:10:04.659
what do you think's going to
happen in the future

01:10:04.659 --> 01:10:08.538 line:50%
with all these
changes occurring?

01:10:04.659 --> 01:10:08.538
>> Well, coming from elders,

01:10:08.538 --> 01:10:12.667
one day all this
will be underwater. Underwater.

01:10:12.667 --> 01:10:16.087 line:50%
>> I believe that.
I believe that.

01:10:12.667 --> 01:10:16.087
>> Totally, Yes.

01:10:17.672 --> 01:10:20.716
I don't know why people
are arguing, not arguing for it,

01:10:20.716 --> 01:10:23.261
you know, it's going to be
gone one day.

01:10:23.261 --> 01:10:26.639
So will I, you know?

01:10:26.639 --> 01:10:28.641
Just use what you got.

01:10:30.309 --> 01:10:33.938
>> Hmm. Lots to think about.

01:10:37.233 --> 01:10:41.237
(dramatic music)

01:10:44.866 --> 01:10:47.869
I think I was about
ten years old.

01:10:47.869 --> 01:10:49.829
We would play
along the beach,

01:10:49.829 --> 01:10:53.999
and we were always so amazed
when these huge icebergs

01:10:53.999 --> 01:10:56.836
would be brought in
from the northwind.

01:10:58.880 --> 01:11:02.091
Today there is no such things.

01:11:03.050 --> 01:11:07.263
In that span of twenty-years,
huge changes.

01:11:09.432 --> 01:11:14.270
Scientists are studying how fast
the coastline is moving back.

01:11:15.605 --> 01:11:20.568
Our communities are literally
falling into the ocean,

01:11:20.568 --> 01:11:24.197
much faster than I think
we had anticipated.

01:11:26.282 --> 01:11:29.285
(dramatic music)

01:11:30.786 --> 01:11:33.289
So what does
that now mean

01:11:33.289 --> 01:11:36.250
for our hunters
that are just emerging,

01:11:36.250 --> 01:11:38.711
our young people
that are coming up?

01:11:38.711 --> 01:11:43.466
They've been taught their
traditional hunting routes

01:11:43.466 --> 01:11:47.303
in all seasons,
but now that it's unsafe,

01:11:48.638 --> 01:11:51.474
how, what does the future
look like for them?

01:11:57.396 --> 01:11:59.398
It's a scary thought.

01:12:16.541 --> 01:12:20.503
Can you see how
beautiful this is?

01:12:20.503 --> 01:12:23.923
To lose that?
That's scary.

01:12:23.923 --> 01:12:26.592
Yeah. Um, what are we leaving?

01:12:26.592 --> 01:12:29.428
Excuse me, one sec. Uhh.

01:12:35.851 --> 01:12:39.188
What are we leaving?

01:12:39.188 --> 01:12:41.023
We didn't do this.

01:12:43.442 --> 01:12:47.738
But we're, we're taking
the whole weight of it,

01:12:47.738 --> 01:12:52.034
and yeah, what will we
have left in fifty years?

01:12:52.034 --> 01:12:54.704
Oh, I can't,
I can't even think that far.

01:12:54.704 --> 01:12:56.831
It's a scary thought,
it really is,

01:12:56.831 --> 01:12:59.041
even to look twenty years ahead.

01:13:12.388 --> 01:13:14.765
>> Oh, oh, look at this! Look!

01:13:14.765 --> 01:13:17.852
>> Right here's a radish, look.
Look at that one.

01:13:17.852 --> 01:13:21.314
You could pull it,
you have to eat it though.

01:13:21.314 --> 01:13:23.065
You could wash it, hey?

01:13:23.065 --> 01:13:25.776
Stick your hand way, way in.

01:13:25.776 --> 01:13:28.279
See if you could feel
any potatoes,

01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:30.698
there might be potatoes
growing in there.

01:13:31.574 --> 01:13:34.785
Stick your hand way, way in!
You keep wanting to check.

01:13:37.413 --> 01:13:39.582
>> Ah, that's freezing!
I feel one.

01:13:39.582 --> 01:13:40.666
>> Do you feel a potato?

01:13:40.666 --> 01:13:42.918
If you do, pull it out,
let's see it.

01:13:42.918 --> 01:13:44.545
>> Gonna check up high though.

01:13:46.714 --> 01:13:48.132 line:50%
>> Don't fall.

01:13:46.714 --> 01:13:48.132
>> Okay.

01:13:51.135 --> 01:13:52.887 line:50%
>> Be careful.

01:13:51.135 --> 01:13:52.887
>> I found one.

01:13:52.887 --> 01:13:54.847
>> Did you? Here's one.

01:13:54.847 --> 01:13:57.475 line:50%
Now why does it feel weird?

01:13:54.847 --> 01:13:57.475
>> Hello.

01:13:57.475 --> 01:14:00.895
>> Hey, come on in,
check out the garden!

01:14:02.772 --> 01:14:04.190
>> This is beautiful.

01:14:04.190 --> 01:14:06.233 line:50%
How's it going?

01:14:04.190 --> 01:14:06.233
>> Good. Hey.

01:14:06.233 --> 01:14:07.902
>> Alright, so I'll get
up to something.

01:14:07.902 --> 01:14:10.946
So there's like, all this
mint— yep, near the bottom.

01:14:10.946 --> 01:14:11.656
>> Can I eat it?

01:14:11.656 --> 01:14:15.910 line:50%
>> Yeah, you can eat it.

01:14:11.656 --> 01:14:15.910
>> Perfect!

01:14:15.910 --> 01:14:18.996 line:50%
>> Eugh, too minty!

01:14:15.910 --> 01:14:18.996
>> It's too minty.

01:14:18.996 --> 01:14:21.832
>> See, the peppers
are actually....

01:14:23.876 --> 01:14:25.378
I hope she's able to garden.

01:14:25.378 --> 01:14:27.880
If she keeps helping and
working with me she'll know—

01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:30.216
>> She'll know
exactly what to do.

01:14:30.216 --> 01:14:32.385
It's just like with our
subsistence harvesting

01:14:32.385 --> 01:14:34.970
for caribou or whale
or whatever it is.

01:14:34.970 --> 01:14:37.848
>> I think this is almost like
walking in two worlds.

01:14:37.848 --> 01:14:39.892
I think that's
extreme adaptability.

01:14:39.892 --> 01:14:41.185
>> I think so too.

01:14:41.185 --> 01:14:43.979
I think a lot of it too is,
it's so expensive

01:14:43.979 --> 01:14:46.982
but also a lot of people don't
know how to prepare them.

01:14:48.442 --> 01:14:50.778 line:50%
Hi, Marjorie!

01:14:48.442 --> 01:14:50.778
>> Oh hi, Marjorie!

01:14:50.778 --> 01:14:53.614
>> Quite long ago we have to
knock before we enter.

01:14:55.491 --> 01:14:58.744
Oh, it's awesome to see your
plants and your veggies

01:14:58.744 --> 01:15:01.747 line:50%
or whatever you call them.
And flowers, ooh!

01:15:03.290 --> 01:15:04.917 line:50%
And this is?

01:15:03.290 --> 01:15:04.917
>> Mint.

01:15:04.917 --> 01:15:07.294
>> Mint, oh. Mmm!

01:15:07.294 --> 01:15:09.547 line:50%
>> Doesn't it smell good?

01:15:07.294 --> 01:15:09.547
>> Really!

01:15:09.547 --> 01:15:10.798
>> You gotta smell this one,

01:15:10.798 --> 01:15:13.634
this one is my favorite,
it's lemon balm.

01:15:13.634 --> 01:15:14.635
>> You could eat it?

01:15:14.635 --> 01:15:17.638
Yeah, it's an herb, just like
oregano, or... yeah.

01:15:18.931 --> 01:15:21.016
Yeah, you could eat
everything in here.

01:15:21.016 --> 01:15:22.601
>> Honestly? Even the flowers?

01:15:22.601 --> 01:15:25.229
>> Yeah, you could eat
the petals!

01:15:25.229 --> 01:15:27.148
>> Petals and all, holy!

01:15:27.148 --> 01:15:28.733
>> This is dill.

01:15:28.733 --> 01:15:32.069
It's good for salmon,
the salmon that we're catching.

01:15:32.069 --> 01:15:33.612 line:50%
>> Oh, yeah, okay.

01:15:32.069 --> 01:15:33.612
>> Or the arctic char.

01:15:33.612 --> 01:15:35.030
>> Almost like mint.

01:15:35.030 --> 01:15:38.451
>> Try this one, it just fell
off, it must be good to eat.

01:15:40.327 --> 01:15:41.662
>> Does it taste
like a strawberry?

01:15:41.662 --> 01:15:47.418
>> Oh, yeah! Mmm! Little bit
sweeter though.

01:15:47.418 --> 01:15:49.920 line:50%
>> If you just pull this off,
these are all lettuce.

01:15:47.418 --> 01:15:49.920
>> Oh, okay.

01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.339
This is all edible,
it's enough for a salad.

01:15:53.007 --> 01:15:55.843
>> My homegrown vegetables.

01:15:59.555 --> 01:16:03.559
(singing and drumming)

01:16:06.270 --> 01:16:08.856
>>As Inuvialuit,
we have the skills

01:16:08.856 --> 01:16:11.859
to live in one of the most harsh
environments in the world.

01:16:13.194 --> 01:16:15.070
>> This is kind of a crooked...

01:16:15.070 --> 01:16:16.071
>> Crooked back.

01:16:16.071 --> 01:16:20.451
>> Crooked back, yeah.

01:16:20.451 --> 01:16:23.412
>> I've been all over the Inuit
circumpolar world

01:16:23.412 --> 01:16:26.957
and in some instances
the language is very strong

01:16:26.957 --> 01:16:28.083
in certain regions,

01:16:28.083 --> 01:16:32.713
whereas their skillset to go
and harvest from the land isn't.

01:16:34.715 --> 01:16:37.009
And here it's the opposite,

01:16:37.009 --> 01:16:38.761
our young people are skilled,

01:16:38.761 --> 01:16:41.847
our young people know how
to go out there and harvest

01:16:41.847 --> 01:16:45.559
and make a living
off of the land.

01:16:45.559 --> 01:16:50.272
Each time we harvest a caribou
or we harvest berries,

01:16:50.272 --> 01:16:52.650
I see it as
a huge middle finger

01:16:52.650 --> 01:16:54.860
to the corporate
food industry.

01:16:56.612 --> 01:16:59.615
(upbeat music)

01:17:01.242 --> 01:17:02.618
>> Closing circle.

01:17:02.618 --> 01:17:05.871
Then they practice
using their voices.

01:17:05.871 --> 01:17:09.834
Any reflections from the
first timers of the new land?

01:17:09.834 --> 01:17:11.335
>> My name is Tyson,

01:17:11.335 --> 01:17:13.838
graduating from school 2019,

01:17:13.838 --> 01:17:17.091
going to LCC to get
a degree in business.

01:17:17.091 --> 01:17:18.592
And I was at the new land,

01:17:18.592 --> 01:17:20.553
and I really like
seeing the kalo,

01:17:20.553 --> 01:17:22.346
there's like,
a big line of kalo...

01:17:22.346 --> 01:17:26.642
>> We see our enterprise
as a process of Indigenization,

01:17:26.642 --> 01:17:29.895
which is a continuation
of decolonizing.

01:17:29.895 --> 01:17:32.523
These young adults
who may be weeding right now

01:17:32.523 --> 01:17:34.942
will eventually
be executive directors.

01:17:34.942 --> 01:17:36.735
>> Kale looks good.

01:17:36.735 --> 01:17:40.406
Finally getting the gravy back,
yeah, so... and yeah.

01:17:40.406 --> 01:17:43.826
>> That is a key part of how
our ancestors always thought.

01:17:43.826 --> 01:17:46.662
It's super hard to be
a first world Indigenous,

01:17:46.662 --> 01:17:48.664
but we also have first world
Indigenous problems, right?

01:17:48.664 --> 01:17:52.418
(laughing) So, that owning
your own privilege,

01:17:52.418 --> 01:17:53.836
and being aware of it,

01:17:53.836 --> 01:17:57.298
and understanding
that we have agency

01:17:57.298 --> 01:17:59.842
and we have to be
good stewards of it.

01:17:59.842 --> 01:18:02.303
This isn't just about
feeding Hawaiians,

01:18:02.303 --> 01:18:04.263
it's about feeding everybody.

01:18:04.263 --> 01:18:07.224
Having them all understand
the value of our ancestry.

01:18:07.224 --> 01:18:08.893
>> Value what you're doing here.

01:18:08.893 --> 01:18:11.687
Your power is helping,
that's so gangsta.

01:18:11.687 --> 01:18:14.356
It's something I'll tell
my great-grandkids.

01:18:14.356 --> 01:18:18.110 line:50%
"Mala 'Ai 'Opio,
back in the days..."

01:18:14.356 --> 01:18:18.110
(all laughing)

01:18:18.110 --> 01:18:20.487
You can kill me
right now and I'll be satisfied,

01:18:20.487 --> 01:18:22.948
because I'm, I'm doing
something that's very righteous

01:18:22.948 --> 01:18:24.533
in a community that needs it,

01:18:24.533 --> 01:18:28.704
in a, in a state of America
that really needs it.

01:18:28.704 --> 01:18:30.039
We're trying to start
a revolution

01:18:30.039 --> 01:18:31.457
and I'm part of it.

01:18:31.457 --> 01:18:34.627
I'm in a manager role
and that's a big responsibility

01:18:34.627 --> 01:18:37.504
that I could never think
I would have two years ago.

01:18:37.504 --> 01:18:40.549
There's still a lot
more work to do.

01:18:40.549 --> 01:18:42.968 line:50%
No panic, go organic.

01:18:40.549 --> 01:18:42.968
(all clapping)

01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:47.389
>> One of the hardest things

01:18:47.389 --> 01:18:49.642
about living
in a gender world

01:18:49.642 --> 01:18:52.978 line:50%
is that we're always
comparing ourselves to

01:18:52.978 --> 01:18:56.440
archetypes and things that
aren't necessarily authentic.

01:18:56.440 --> 01:18:59.777
Queer Nature, it's the best
way for me to engage

01:18:59.777 --> 01:19:03.405
in these, like, earth-based
skills in an authentic way.

01:19:04.573 --> 01:19:06.825
>> This is our right
as humans  on this earth

01:19:06.825 --> 01:19:09.078
to cultivate land
and create relationship.

01:19:09.078 --> 01:19:11.580
And we will do that,
and we will make ourselves

01:19:11.580 --> 01:19:14.166
healthy and strong and vital.

01:19:14.166 --> 01:19:16.251
>> Growing food is
one of the most pro-Black things

01:19:16.251 --> 01:19:19.046
that you can do
to liberate yourself.

01:19:19.046 --> 01:19:22.007
My job is to help
folks in my community understand

01:19:22.007 --> 01:19:25.928
what they can do to change
their own situation.

01:19:25.928 --> 01:19:29.014
>> I think when climate change
has reached its peak

01:19:29.014 --> 01:19:32.393
and the world
seems like a hostile place,

01:19:32.393 --> 01:19:35.062
our people
will still be thriving,

01:19:35.062 --> 01:19:38.983
and I don't think that
they'll be able to survive.

01:19:38.983 --> 01:19:42.069
I don't think that
they have the skillset.

01:19:42.069 --> 01:19:46.031
I know we do, and we're not
going to go anywhere.

01:19:46.031 --> 01:19:48.033
We're not going anywhere.

01:19:50.828 --> 01:19:52.997
Yeah, no, it's true,
we're not going anywhere

01:19:52.997 --> 01:19:56.917
but you know,
when their towers crumble

01:19:56.917 --> 01:19:59.753
and the money's gone,

01:19:59.753 --> 01:20:01.755
what are you going to eat?