vue - Building a Future with Farmers: Lindsey Lusher Shute at TEDxManhattan 2013
Lindsey Lusher Shute talks about the decades long migration away from the family farm in the United States, and how bringing young people back to farming is critical for the future of food, agriculture and rural places. Lindsey Lusher Shute is the Executive Director and co-founder of the National Young Farmers' Coalition, (NYFC) a membership-based organization dedicated to the success of the next generation of sustainable farmers in the United States. NYFC's supporter network includes thousands of farmers and consumers from all fifty states, who work together to advocate for change in Federal policy, develop new farm technology through the Farm Hack project and solve local issues through regional NYFC chapters. Lindsey regularly speaks at conferences and meetings across the nation, advocating for practical and policy solutions that will help beginning farmers build independent and sustainable farms. Lindsey and her husband run Hearty Roots Community Farm, a 600-member CSA farm, in the Hudson River Valley. Lindsey's first growing experience was at the Red Shed Community Garden in Brooklyn, which she built from the ground up with neighbors. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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social soil ?
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the more farmers, the better! we need farmers not GMO
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the reason there are no young farmers it's the same in Ireland is because the older farmers won't retire an by time it's handed down the next person in line is to old to make it worth while investing money into it as they simply won't get it back or anything out of it for there time there
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Who votes this video down? Really? You don't like small farmers?
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I agree!
So does this author: "In order to continue providing employment, it is imperative to promote an economy which favours productive diversity and business creativity. For example, there is a great variety of small-scale food production systems which feed the greater part of the world’s peoples, using a modest amount of land and producing less waste, be it in small agricultural parcels, in orchards and gardens, hunting and wild harvesting or local fishing. Economies of scale, especially in the agricultural sector, end up forcing smallholders to sell their land or to abandon their traditional crops. Their attempts to move to other, more diversified, means of production prove fruitless because of the difficulty of linkage with regional and global markets, or because the infrastructure for sales and transport is geared to larger businesses. Civil authorities have the right and duty to adopt clear and firm measures in support of small producers and differentiated production. To ensure economic freedom from which all can effectively benefit, restraints occasionally have to be imposed on those possessing greater resources and financial power. To claim economic freedom while real conditions bar many people from actual access to it, and while possibilities for employment continue to shrink, is to practise a doublespeak which brings politics into disrepute. Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good." - Pope Francis "Laudato Si'" 129 -
Yes, let's get youth learning about farms. Let's make farms sustainable.
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To my Google friends view this Tedx Manhattan video
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TED Talks are always so cool and this video is no different.
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Good for you. Your vision is the hope of the USA.
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Thank you for all the work you do! In my eyes, Farming is the most honorable and important occupation one can pursue!
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The only thing of substance she said was the subsidies that are creating large corporate farms needs to stop. The problem is government policy is against small farms, from absurd regulation to subsidizing larger corporate farms. We need to stop looking for some large government to pay and start doing for ourselves. Like she is doing but at the same time she cries for more govt handouts. All we need the govt to do is level the playing field and get out of the way
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awake and realize the economic terrorism that is taking place, by lack of farm finance
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This is great! I'll be sharing!
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