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From art to agriculture: Emerald Gardens
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast
English - October 20, 2020 17:53 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEducation Science Natural Sciences agriculture climatechange farmers farming food ranchers ranching regenerative scientists sustainable Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Roberto Meza was a multi-media artist and MIT graduate student when he went encountered some health challenges. He found that eating healthy greens restored his health and spirit so powerfully that he started apprenticing with a farmer and then moved to Colorado to start Emerald Gardens, a greenhouse-based farm that delivers microgreens to customers in the Denver area—and which brings a focus to issues of food sovereignty, equity, and building a robust local food system.