Beyond The Market Final Cut #2 — Transcript
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- 0:00Some growers have been forced to sell
- 0:01their land, others are ripping out
- 0:03decade old
- 0:04>> After 88 years in operation, BC Tree
- 0:07Fruits has collapsed delivering a
- 0:08devastating blow to growers across the
- 0:10Okanagan.
- 0:11>> Effective immediately, we're shuttering
- 0:12our operations. It was like shocking.
- 0:15>> I did not anticipate it.
- 0:17>> Furious farmers are taking their fight
- 0:19to the streets demanding answers that
- 0:21left hundreds of BC growers scrambling
- 0:23to find a way to [music] save their
- 0:24harvest.
- 0:25>> We're in the middle of our harvest
- 0:26season and we've got nowhere to take our
- 0:28fruit currently to.
- 0:30>> They need to find a home and they need
- 0:31to find bins.
- 0:32>> A lot of our fruit just [music] fell to
- 0:34the ground.
- 0:35>> How am I going to keep feeding my
- 0:36family?
- 0:36>> Can the next generation afford to farm
- 0:39or is their dream their parents
- 0:40sacrificed everything to build slowly
- 0:42slipping away? With family farms at risk
- 0:44and an entire industry facing
- 0:45uncertainty, one question remains.
- 0:48What happens now?
- 0:51>> [music]
- 0:57>> My name is Jennifer Deol. I'm the farmer
- 1:00of Derin Backa Gin Farms [music] in
- 1:01Kelowna, British Columbia.
- 1:03>> My name's Nancy Mann. My farm is located
- 1:05in Kelowna, [music] BC. My farm's called
- 1:08East Kelowna Fruit Market and our
- 1:09company's called Suncrest Hill Orchards.
- 1:12>> So, my family, like a lot of immigrant
- 1:14families, came in the 1970s, '80s.
- 1:19>> a program where farm workers could come
- 1:21over. There's always been a shortage of
- 1:23people and like skilled workers to farm
- 1:26in the Okanagan Valley and across the
- 1:29Okanagan and
- 1:30>> Canada. So, they started in the '70s.
- 1:32>> So, my parents started with wine grapes.
- 1:34A lot of the big wineries we know and
- 1:36love in Oliver, my parents were sort of
- 1:38the farm hands behind a lot of those
- 1:40wineries.
- 1:41>> And then by the '90s, they had saved up
- 1:43enough money to buy their own family
- 1:44farm and my ancestry has been farming
- 1:47for like thousands of years. It's just
- 1:49in our blood and
- 1:51what we know. My dad came on his own. He
- 1:54left my sister who was like under one at
- 1:56the time and my mom behind to come and
- 1:59fill these jobs. So, it was very
- 2:01challenging. My my mother-in-law and
- 2:03father-in-law also talk about how they
- 2:06were the first to come from their family
- 2:08and they were by themselves.
- 2:10So, they had no community. They knew
- 2:12very little people. They didn't speak
- 2:14the language and it was just a huge
- 2:17adjustment.
- 2:18>> My parents came to Canada with pretty
- 2:20much nothing and they had to build
- 2:22themselves to the point that they're at
- 2:24now. My parents worked for a soda farms
- 2:27down in Oliver. They worked for a
- 2:29vineyard as well, but a lot of odd farm
- 2:31jobs. So, they'd be working 16 to
- 2:3318-hour days. As a teenager, you don't
- 2:36really think about farming and you don't
- 2:38think about you taking over a farm or
- 2:40continuing that legacy. So, I was quite
- 2:43happy at that time with them encouraging
- 2:46me to do something else.
- 2:49>> So, they felt this need to give their
- 2:51future generations a better life. We
- 2:53have to do this for survival.
- 2:55>> It's what we know and it's what we can
- 2:56get a job in.
- 2:57>> Their mindset was very much become a
- 2:59doctor or a lawyer or engineer or
- 3:01anything where you have a nice office
- 3:03and you're comfortable, you're not hot,
- 3:05your skin isn't melting from the direct
- 3:07heat. So, they didn't want us to farm at
- 3:10all.
- 3:11>> My parents wanted
- 3:13me to get an education and go find a
- 3:16real job.
- 3:17>> [laughter]
- 3:17>> It was my dream to also move away from
- 3:20the farm. My parents always instilled
- 3:21education, so that was important to me.
- 3:24I went to university for environmental
- 3:26sciences, so I have a background in
- 3:28biology, botany, and environmental
- 3:30sustainability. And then I also have a
- 3:32master's in information science. When me
- 3:36and farmer Goody made the decision to
- 3:38want to go back to farming, for both of
- 3:40us the city and the 9-5 started to feel
- 3:43very redundant. There was just something
- 3:46missing for us. Like we'd come home and
- 3:48we'd be like, there's just something
- 3:49that's not clicking. Goody had this
- 3:51crazy idea like, "Hey, what if we
- 3:53started [music] farming?" So, in 2017,
- 3:55we made it a reality.
- 4:04>> Yeah, and [music] I just wanted to help
- 4:06my parents out and saw that they were
- 4:08aging and my parent my brothers didn't
- 4:10show interest, so that was why I'm here
- 4:12now.
- 4:13>> [laughter]
- 4:14>> My mom had stage four breast cancer 17
- 4:18years ago, so her body isn't as strong
- 4:20as it used to be to be able to farm
- 4:23anymore. So, that's another reason for
- 4:25me stepping in was [music] because my
- 4:27mom wasn't able to. And then when my mom
- 4:29had cancer, my [music] dad had actually
- 4:32leased out the farms for 2 years and he
- 4:35took care of my [music] mom throughout
- 4:37her whole 18 months of chemotherapy.
- 4:41>> I wanted my parents' hard work not to be
- 4:44sold off
- 4:44>> [music]
- 4:44>> and I thought I would step in and um
- 4:50you know, slowly transition my parents
- 4:53to retirement and they can enjoy their
- 4:56lives
- 4:57and you know,
- 4:59and then, you know, I I get to put in
- 5:01those long hours now.
- 5:03>> [laughter]
- 5:05>> Like, my grandpa was such an inspiration
- 5:07for farming. Like, it was like it was
- 5:09his hard work that brought us to Canada.
- 5:11Like, my grandpa always tells the story,
- 5:13he came with his two shoes, his small
- 5:16suitcase, and 30
- 5:18Canadian dollars, which is a lot in
- 5:21for that time, but he was like, "I came
- 5:23with very little
- 5:25to [music] make a better life for my
- 5:27family and for future generations in our
- 5:29family."
- 5:30>> I always wanted to make him proud. So, a
- 5:31lot of the decisions I ever made was
- 5:33just like, "What would grandpa think?" I
- 5:34was really driven by showing him that
- 5:36let me build this amazing dream and show
- 5:39him that you can be happy and make money
- 5:41in farming. It doesn't have to be the
- 5:42way it was for for your generation.
- 5:45>> This is my favorite thing to pick cuz
- 5:46you don't have to be bent over like in
- 5:48vegetables. This is like you just go in
- 5:50here and you get your scissors and you
- 5:51just clip clip clip.
- 5:53>> [laughter]
- 5:53>> The way that our farm is set up, we farm
- 5:56used to farm 40 acres. 60% of that went
- 6:00to BC Tree Fruits.
- 6:11We would give BC Tree Fruits about 70%
- 6:15of our crop. 40% of our sales [music]
- 6:17were through the farmers' market and
- 6:20through our fruit stand just to help us
- 6:22weather the seasons where [music] we
- 6:24didn't have that bulk. In 2023, we had
- 6:27shipped our cherries to BC Tree Fruits.
- 6:30We received an average of 54 cents a
- 6:33pound for our fruit
- 6:34>> [music]
- 6:35>> and it costs a farmer anywhere between
- 6:39$1.10 up to $1.30 to grow your fruit. My
- 6:43dad knew if I'm picking these apples and
- 6:45they're to this quality, I'm 90 cents a
- 6:47pound on Gala. You know how much I got
- 6:50paid for Gala in 2018, 2019, 2020 was
- 6:54like 30 cents a pound.
- 7:01>> [music]
- 7:03>> When we bought our first farm 2017,
- 7:06[music]
- 7:07the cost of farmland has only
- 7:09skyrocketed. The cost of fertilizer, of
- 7:11labor, everything has exponentially
- 7:14increased. Yet, somehow apples are
- 7:17bringing in a lower return. It just
- 7:19[music] hasn't made sense for a lot of
- 7:21time. So, I can't blame a farmer when
- 7:22they say I'm getting out of this
- 7:24industry. Farmers have been going in the
- 7:26hole year over year. So, that's why I
- 7:29was relieved because 54 cents, how am I
- 7:32going to keep my orchard running,
- 7:33feeding my family? [music] I'm not going
- 7:35to be able to do that. I have to go get
- 7:37a loan every year.
- 7:42>> How does packing house structure work?
- 7:47>> [sighs]
- 7:47>> That's a really good question. My
- 7:49understanding was that we provide
- 7:52quality fruit. We get a pack out report
- 7:55and on that pack out report it will say
- 7:58what grade our cherry was, if it was
- 8:01premium quality, if it was class one, if
- 8:03it was export or if they sold it
- 8:05domestic. If you're growing better
- 8:07quality cherry, you get better returns
- 8:10for that. That was my understanding and
- 8:12when I looked at my pack out reports,
- 8:14they looked good to me. That my average
- 8:16call rate was between 12% which is very
- 8:20good. And
- 8:24I didn't see the return.
- 8:28And uh
- 8:29I don't know what happens behind the
- 8:31scenes. [music]
- 8:32That is what I'm learning and that's
- 8:34what I've been trying to learn the last
- 8:35few years is how this industry works and
- 8:38why farmers aren't able to know [music]
- 8:41or get to know how they're farming.
- 9:00>> This time of year these baskets should
- 9:02be overflowing with fresh Okanagan
- 9:04fruit. Each one bearing the iconic BC
- 9:07Tree [music] Fruits logo.
- 9:08>> We all woke up one morning um and cuz we
- 9:12got the email pretty early in the
- 9:13morning. I don't know if I'm reading it
- 9:14correctly, but it seems like they're
- 9:16shutting down and I remember thinking
- 9:17there's no way they would do that in the
- 9:19like middle of the season.
- 9:21>> Dear BC Tree Fruits grower, it is with
- 9:23profound sadness that we must inform you
- 9:25that BC Tree Fruits Corporation will no
- 9:28longer be receiving [music] fruit
- 9:30beginning today.
- 9:32>> And I was like oh
- 9:35well, what? I I called my dad and my dad
- 9:37was just like, "Huh?" And then we saw a
- 9:40news article, and then we're like, "What
- 9:42is happening?"
- 9:43>> The sudden shutdown left hundreds of BC
- 9:45growers scrambling to find new packing
- 9:47facilities, new buyers, and a way to
- 9:49save their harvest. For many, the clock
- 9:51is ticking. But as the protest grow
- 9:53louder, the reality facing farmers is
- 9:55becoming harder to ignore.
- 9:57>> It happened just so fast. It Like there
- 9:59was no I don't think we had a say at
- 10:01that moment. It was It was just done.
- 10:03[music]
- 10:04>> It was like
- 10:05shocking. We didn't totally believe it.
- 10:08We're panicking cuz we've just sunk
- 10:10$40,000 worth of cost into boxes. We
- 10:13were told, "These are the first few
- 10:15contracts you're going to have to
- 10:16[music] fill." Until we got that letter.
- 10:18And Gurry and I cried about it at the
- 10:20time, but that was actually one of our
- 10:21best yields we had gotten.
- 10:25>> Farmers lost their [music] their
- 10:26livelihood. We had to change. We had to
- 10:29do something.
- 10:30>> So then you start making phone calls.
- 10:32>> Who can we sell these to? We couldn't
- 10:34[music] use a BC Tree Fruit packaging,
- 10:36so we had to pick in our own totes, and
- 10:38anyone [music] that was willing to take
- 10:39them. And there were rows rows of grapes
- 10:42that we just had to let fall to the
- 10:44ground because we didn't have anyone
- 10:45lined up to buy [music] them. So
- 10:47>> Then the horror stories come in, where
- 10:49like your neighbor was taking [music]
- 10:51cherries to the packing house, and all
- 10:53the the doors were boarded off with
- 10:55staff saying, "We don't know what's
- 10:56going on, [music] but we can't take
- 10:57cherry today."
- 10:58>> I met farmers that couldn't afford to
- 11:02buy production insurance, and then
- 11:04losing their crop, and then having to go
- 11:07get jobs to be able to pay for their
- 11:09mortgages.
- 11:14It was sad. It was really really sad to
- 11:16meet all these people that have worked
- 11:18their whole lives to build a better life
- 11:22for themselves, a better life for their
- 11:23families. They came to this country with
- 11:25hopes and dreams.
- 11:27>> If you've ever seen a cherry before it
- 11:28needs to get into proper facilities,
- 11:30otherwise it just degrades. Like as soon
- 11:32as you pick up fruit off a tree, it's
- 11:34already losing its like shelf life.
- 11:38>> You can't just take a grower's money or
- 11:41you can't take all these loans on the
- 11:44base that the growers are going to have
- 11:45fruit and then put the growers in a
- 11:47predicament.
- 11:48>> Uh that was one big thing we lost was
- 11:50access to the cold storage.
- 11:53>> [music]
- 11:53>> So that season if we just had a little
- 11:55bit of extra storage where we could
- 11:56store the grapes and apples [music]
- 11:58while we looked for a buyer, that would
- 12:00have saved us so much, but we didn't
- 12:01have that.
- 12:04>> It was over 90 years old and it was
- 12:08built by farmers for farmers.
- 12:10>> [music]
- 12:10>> And to see that it had become a type of
- 12:13corporation and [music] run by uh people
- 12:17that
- 12:19do not farm.
- 12:20>> You have the typical things a business
- 12:21has, which is like a CEO or an executive
- 12:24director, [music] and employees, but
- 12:26what sets a cooperative apart is that we
- 12:29as a farmer are voting members. We
- 12:31[music] are stakeholders. So we have
- 12:33power in making decisions. The board of
- 12:36directors who represent the membership,
- 12:38some of the board have even said that it
- 12:40wasn't fully transparent, that that
- 12:42decision was made was so inhumane, it
- 12:45was so like corporate. That's not what
- 12:47the spirit of a cooperation should be at
- 12:49all.
- 12:53>> I believe that they did not have a
- 12:55strong business model and they may have
- 12:57overreached and did not understand that
- 13:00climate change is a very very real
- 13:03thing.
- 13:03>> There's so much economic uncertainty,
- 13:06stress, and then you have a situation
- 13:08where [music] 2024 really low fruit
- 13:10returns.
- 13:11>> In January when we had those
- 13:15>> [music]
- 13:16>> temperatures, it caused the trees to be
- 13:19confused. They weren't fully asleep and
- 13:23farmers lost their livelihood.
- 13:25And with that they weren't able to
- 13:27manage it.
- 13:28>> Could the cooperative have still been
- 13:29saved? Of course, but I think they just
- 13:31took a conservative decision with their
- 13:32creditor. Their bank was just like,
- 13:34"Your numbers don't look good. So, this
- 13:36is the best decision." And at the time,
- 13:38the board agreed, even though majority
- 13:41of the membership was surprised and
- 13:43unaware that that conversation was even
- 13:45happening. That strain just [music] led
- 13:47to a collapse.
- 13:55That was the year I really thought we
- 13:58were going to quit. That was a very hard
- 14:00year. A lot of bad things happened that
- 14:02year.
- 14:06Like I lost my grandpa. He was my
- 14:08primary person, and he taught me
- 14:10everything I know about farming like and
- 14:11so losing him, it just wasn't It was
- 14:14very sudden and hard.
- 14:17My dad wanted to rip out the trees.
- 14:20He didn't want to farm anymore.
- 14:24And um
- 14:27to see
- 14:30him worn out
- 14:34is what I keep going. It's just
- 14:38just to make sure that, you know, dad's
- 14:41hard work doesn't get sold off.
- 14:43Sorry.
- 14:47>> It's really unmotivating to farm in a
- 14:48season where you have personal losses,
- 14:50but you also know no matter how hard you
- 14:52work, you're going to be coming out at
- 14:53the end of the year negative. It felt
- 14:55like all of these pillars that were
- 14:57keeping us up were collapsing, and
- 14:59[music] how are we going to survive it?
- 15:01And if we survive it, do we keep doing
- 15:03this? It's taking away more than it's
- 15:06giving us.
- 15:09>> I know that every kid thinks that their
- 15:11dad's the best dad in the world.
- 15:14My dad's the best dad in the world.
- 15:17He's the kindest person I've ever met.
- 15:19He is an honest person.
- 15:21>> [music]
- 15:22>> And his honesty and his integrity is
- 15:24what I'm trying to
- 15:26keep going.
- 15:27>> We still feel like we failed. We wish
- 15:30there was another way that we could have
- 15:32kept doing it. It was either we get
- 15:34pruned from the agriculture sector or we
- 15:36prune a dream. Like we clip off a branch
- 15:40and we keep growing or we get completely
- 15:43clipped out and stop farming. I'm not
- 15:46going out without a fight. I'm going to
- 15:48keep growing the food I can grow that I
- 15:51can sell myself [music] until it's no
- 15:53longer is sustainable. The dream was
- 15:55always to come in,
- 15:57grow things we really love and preserve
- 15:59the land. And when that wasn't
- 16:01sustainable, it kind of felt like the
- 16:03death of a dream. But from those ashes
- 16:06rose something really like very
- 16:09serendipitous.
- 16:09>> We were forced into it and now we fully
- 16:11embraced it.
- 16:13>> As a parent, you just don't stop. My
- 16:15girls work with me all summer long and
- 16:18they get to see what hard work looks
- 16:21like. They've learned this is how mom
- 16:24supports us and this is how mom supports
- 16:27our grandparents. They understand that.
- 16:29They have a lot of respect for farming.
- 16:31They have a lot of respect for this
- 16:34industry. They get to see firsthand.
- 16:36They get to experience it and it makes
- 16:38my dad proud and he supports me and he
- 16:40is there for me and anything that I do,
- 16:43he is like my number one fan.
- 17:00It was always in the back of my mind
- 17:03that something needed to be changed.
- 17:04It's like, okay, how am I going to do
- 17:07this? Now, I was approached by this
- 17:10marketing team. I didn't apply for the
- 17:12job. It was like, this is it, Nancy.
- 17:14This is your opportunity. This is where
- 17:17you are going to now align your values
- 17:19with this company's values, and we are
- 17:22going to slowly build a brand here in
- 17:25Canada. All the dreams that I had, all
- 17:28the work that I put in, all the late
- 17:32night, it just
- 17:34all came together [music] in that
- 17:37moment. My title is business development
- 17:39manager,
- 17:41working with a marketing team. I'm going
- 17:43to be able to work directly with growers
- 17:45that want to also be thriving and not
- 17:49just be surviving. They need to be able
- 17:51to trust me, and I want to be able to be
- 17:53their person to go to.
- 17:57So, I'll be covering most of Western
- 17:59Canada and building that relationship on
- 18:02this side of um the coast. Yeah.
- 18:05Packing houses don't work for everyone.
- 18:08It did not work for my family. So, with
- 18:10working with a marketing company, we are
- 18:13eliminating the packing house. Their
- 18:16communication is going to be directly
- 18:18with myself or my team, and designing a
- 18:22program, something where the farmers
- 18:25will know in real-time what is happening
- 18:27with their fruit. So, there's a lot of
- 18:29little things that are happening behind
- 18:31the scenes that slowly I'll be able to
- 18:33roll out for these farmers as well as
- 18:36for myself. The only way we grow and
- 18:39learn is if we change.
- 18:45>> For me and Good Earth from a values
- 18:46perspective, even though it might not
- 18:48make the most money, growing a diversity
- 18:51of food at a smaller scale where we move
- 18:53it up ourselves, just feels like it
- 18:55naturally fits who we are, which is like
- 18:58keeping the dollar local and reinvesting
- 19:01in my own economy in like my own
- 19:03community.
- 19:06>> If the trend continues, which is more of
- 19:09the [music] style of large-scale cherry
- 19:12or wine grapes. That isn't what sparked
- 19:14our joy with farming in the first place.
- 19:16If we had to move that direction, like a
- 19:18lot of people are having to, I think we
- 19:20would just give up on the dream cuz it
- 19:22would be so far removed from who we are.
- 19:24Like, we got into this to grow for our
- 19:26community. It was to preserve old
- 19:29varietals of fruit. It was to grow a
- 19:31diversity of food that feeds the people
- 19:34that lift me up and that I lift up. Um
- 19:36and that's my community. So, we are in
- 19:39communication and talks with different
- 19:40[music] wineries and chefs to do more
- 19:43like farm-to-table dinners, to do more
- 19:45agritourism like tours of the farm. So,
- 19:48our name There and Back Again is really
- 19:50inspired [music]
- 19:51by the Shire, the Hobbit, about building
- 19:54good cheer, good food, good community.
- 19:56We're working with an amazing local
- 19:59design team and architect. Our hope is
- 20:01that we can have shovels in the ground
- 20:03>> [music]
- 20:03>> and have something built in the next
- 20:05year. A place for community to gather,
- 20:07to come together, host more events,
- 20:10>> [music]
- 20:10>> and open up our farm to people being
- 20:13able to come in and pick their own
- 20:14fruit.
- 20:15>> So, I bring in a lot of stuff from other
- 20:16farmers and makers and bakers. People
- 20:18who I know, whose quality I can back. I
- 20:21know exactly how it's grown and who they
- 20:22are as a person. So, you're supporting
- 20:24me or 20 other small businesses. And my
- 20:27local community really appreciates that.
- 20:29So,
- 20:30>> when I recently had my 7-month-old
- 20:33daughter, we had gifts to showing up
- 20:35from all these people that they're not
- 20:37just customers, they're our family. They
- 20:38care about us, they're invested [music]
- 20:39in us. I remember when we had grapes
- 20:42falling off the ground in 2024, people
- 20:45were coming in and being like, "Let me
- 20:46just you pick. I'll you pick 50 lbs
- 20:48more, 60 lbs more. I don't know what I'm
- 20:50going to do with it yet, but I'm going
- 20:51to do it and I'm going to pay you."
- 20:52Like, [music]
- 20:53these people have become like family to
- 20:55us. And there really is nothing more
- 20:57beautiful than growing for your neighbor
- 20:59or your friend.
- 21:02We're just in this stage of our business
- 21:04where we're trying to find our footing
- 21:06and we're trying to find what makes us
- 21:07happy, what puts food on the table.
- 21:10Um we're still in that transition phase
- 21:12of okay, if it's not going to be [music]
- 21:14through BC Tree Fruits, what's What does
- 21:17the future look like for us?
- 21:21>> Do we think farming will continue the
- 21:24way it is right now in 10 years? I hope
- 21:27not. I hope by then I've made an impact
- 21:31in that the smaller farms survive. There
- 21:35is enough change that they don't have to
- 21:38pull their trees out, that they don't
- 21:40have to sell their farms. The goal is to
- 21:43keep the corporations out and [music]
- 21:45keep the small family farms running. If
- 21:47we can take this across the finish line,
- 21:50if we could all work together to be
- 21:53better growers, be better packers, be
- 21:57better as a consumer, I have hope
- 22:00because I've met farmers like myself
- 22:02that want change. And I am an example of
- 22:05it. They can take that example and see
- 22:08what I did, what I could have done
- 22:11better, where they want to align
- 22:14themselves, what their values are,
- 22:16right? And then they can choose that
- 22:18path. So yes, we are There is There's
- 22:21There's room to change.
- 22:25Have I wondered
- 22:29about leaving this industry, farming?
- 22:32Yes, I have many times. Many, many
- 22:34times.
- 22:36Um
- 22:37Will I leave it? No,
- 22:39I won't. I'm not a quitter.
- 22:43I'm very stubborn.
- 22:45There's those moments where you give up,
- 22:47especially after 2024, especially after
- 22:50last year, especially after a heat dome,
- 22:53a cold snap, oversaturated market. Like
- 22:55there's so much stuff that happens. You
- 22:58need to have passion. And if you don't
- 23:00have passion, don't get into farming.
- 23:03>> You do it because you're passionate and
- 23:04you care and [music] you love growing
- 23:06this thing for your family and you want
- 23:07to share the extra with other people.
- 23:09Often times farmers, any farmer in any
- 23:12field that they farm, often are more
- 23:14negative than positive revenue, but what
- 23:17keeps you going is the good. The beauty
- 23:19of being able to grow something and sell
- 23:21it yourself. Like you grew this and
- 23:23someone else is eating it now. That in
- 23:26itself is hope.
- 23:31We love growing up on our farm. Like any
- 23:34childhood memory we have is so
- 23:36intrinsically [music] tied to the
- 23:38seasons on the farm.
- 23:40>> I do want my kids to be able to come
- 23:43back to the farm, to be able to show the
- 23:45farm off, to be able to grow and and go
- 23:48with the changes, but I also want my
- 23:50kids to experience life. I want my
- 23:53children to be able to go and explore
- 23:56and learn and grow and then come back
- 23:59and then make that choice on their own.
- 24:01>> And I hope that you're proud of your
- 24:02parents. In a family dynamic in a
- 24:04community that's trying to erase
- 24:06farmers, [music]
- 24:06my own parents were ashamed and didn't
- 24:09want to us to continue farming
- 24:11>> [music]
- 24:11>> to the systems that are erasing and
- 24:13pruning us from the agriculture sector.
- 24:15>> And if they choose to go into farming,
- 24:18they will have my support like my
- 24:19parents supported me.
- 24:21>> I just hope that you feel like
- 24:23you know, we did it. Even if it isn't
- 24:25how we dreamed about it, we fought for
- 24:28it till the very end to do something
- 24:31that we love and I'd love for [music] my
- 24:33kids to continue to build on that.
- 24:37>> The future looks endless now for me. So
- 24:40excited. I am so excited that I'm going
- 24:43to bring change and I'm going to
- 24:46probably fall a hundred times. And you
- 24:48know what? That's what we have to do.
- 24:51Fall and then get right back up. And if
- 24:53you want to fall for a bit longer, okay,
- 24:55do that.
- 24:59>> What's next for us?
- 25:01Uh, we are slowly sowing the seeds of
- 25:03our our new dream, which is to
- 25:06take it back to our roots and farm
- 25:09within our community. We're sowing the
- 25:11seeds for that right now and
- 25:13hoping that it grows [music] into
- 25:14something like beautiful and sustainable
- 25:17and that it's something that the
- 25:18community wants to support.
- 25:21>> We love what we do.
- 25:23We love farming. I wouldn't be doing
- 25:26this if I didn't love it. I'm doing this
- 25:28for my community.
- 25:30I'm doing [music] it
- 25:31for you.
- 25:33>> To anyone that's watching that wants to
- 25:37support a farmer, the best way to do it
- 25:40is just shopping directly with that
- 25:42farmer, finding where they are in the
- 25:45closest area to you. [music]
- 25:46>> I'm doing it for my customers that come
- 25:48and see me at the farmers market. They
- 25:50know how much love I have for what I do
- 25:54and all farmers have love for what they
- 25:56do.
- 25:57>> That one sale directly to a farmer means
- 26:00everything. You know, that [music]
- 26:01farmer woke up that 5:00 a.m. often
- 26:04harvesting crop in the morning, loading
- 26:06it up on a vehicle, getting to [music]
- 26:08the market. You buying directly from
- 26:10them means the world. Our local farmers
- 26:12are struggling and if it's giving my
- 26:15money to a grocery store or driving a
- 26:17little bit further to find someone that
- 26:20either grows [music] it themselves or
- 26:21supports a farmer, I'd rather move my
- 26:24money that way.
- 26:25>> I'm very grateful [music] for the
- 26:27community for supporting us and thank
- 26:30you for buying our produce from the
- 26:32grocery store. Thank you for supporting
- 26:34us at the farmers market. [music] Thank
- 26:35you for showing up at our gates and
- 26:37asking us if we're selling fruit. Thank
- 26:39you for um everything that you guys do
- 26:42for us so we can continue doing this for
- 26:44you. Thank you. Yeah.
- 26:51>> [music]
- 27:01>> Mhm.
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