WEBVTT 1 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:23.240 Presenter Front Camera: Welcome everyone 2 00:00:28.330 --> 00:00:29.209 Presenter Front Camera: pretty far. 3 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:48.710 Presenter Front Camera: Okay. You think we would get this technology. 4 00:00:57.170 --> 00:01:00.169 Presenter Front Camera: Okay, welcome everyone. 5 00:01:02.540 --> 00:01:08.889 Presenter Front Camera: My name is Greg Schrock. I'm the Director of the Institute of Portland. All the studies I want to welcome you to this 6 00:01:08.900 --> 00:01:26.310 Presenter Front Camera: event, creating a resilient regional food system for those of you who are not familiar with the Institute of Portland Policy studies. It was created about 30 years ago, as a way to help bridge the work of Portland, the University, and the Portland Metropolitan region 7 00:01:26.370 --> 00:01:30.089 Presenter Front Camera: through program, research, engagement, convenience. 8 00:01:30.610 --> 00:01:31.860 Presenter Front Camera: and 9 00:01:32.450 --> 00:01:36.760 Presenter Front Camera: the work that my colleagues and will be presenting today. 10 00:01:36.850 --> 00:01:56.320 Presenter Front Camera: Willie represents what Ims was really created to do which was to to to do work that is important and relevant to the the Portland Metro region, and through a program that we created 2 years ago 2 years ago called the Metropolitan Engage Research Initiative program. 11 00:01:56.330 --> 00:02:07.979 Presenter Front Camera: and through that program we we've supported 4 projects now, including Dr. Horse Project here today and and then to 12 00:02:07.990 --> 00:02:25.020 Presenter Front Camera: bring folks together to talk about the results and the findings and the things that have been learned through that process, and do so in in conversation with in in connection with community partners and and stakeholders. So welcome. And again, I want to introduce my colleague, Professor. 13 00:02:29.820 --> 00:02:32.200 Presenter Front Camera: Thank you for your 14 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:35.309 Presenter Front Camera: so welcome. Then how do we go to the 15 00:02:35.580 --> 00:02:46.630 Presenter Front Camera: what's happening on this slide is that we have this polling like QR. Codes on the back of the chairs, and folks joining on Zoom. They are over nearly 80 at the moment, are 16 00:02:46.700 --> 00:03:05.240 Presenter Front Camera: chiming into some answers to to brief questions, and they're just sort of what county. So you work, or kind of do food, work, and or whatever. And then the other one is questions for the panelists. So that's what which going there. So what I could see from the Where are you kind of calling it from or joining in from, is that we have folks from around the Portland Network region, which is great, and 17 00:03:05.250 --> 00:03:09.709 Presenter Front Camera: it'll be a place for us to collect questions to use later. So i'm going to kick us off 18 00:03:10.110 --> 00:03:11.130 Presenter Front Camera: nice for you. 19 00:03:12.660 --> 00:03:14.700 Presenter Front Camera: and are my events in place. 20 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:31.670 Presenter Front Camera: So here's the plan for today. I'm going to give a presentation on some research that I've been doing lately, and about with the title perspective from my organizations and the Portland Metro. Reason on addressing food insecurity in COVID-19 pandemic. 21 00:03:31.680 --> 00:04:00.440 Presenter Front Camera: That'll just be for the first 20 min or so, and then I have folks from my Community Advisory Board here in the room. I'm going to bite up to if you have a few minutes of reaction reflection on the report. And that's part of community engaged research and trying to really represent the voices that we heard from. And then, after that we have a panel discussion. So it's a path, Ambitious agenda, which I think is great, but it probably does mean it will feel fact and full and like that, moving along all the time. Apologies to speakers. I'm going to be moving you along, and that's. 22 00:04:00.450 --> 00:04:16.070 Presenter Front Camera: I think the benefit is. We get a lot of diverse perspectives and comments and a lot of ideas, and we may not get to the solution today to the to the problems mentioned. But we'll have lots of ideas and input. And hopefully it'll be a launch pad for ongoing engagement. 23 00:04:16.180 --> 00:04:17.850 Presenter Front Camera: So comment 24 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:19.070 5 min. 25 00:04:21.070 --> 00:04:49.880 Presenter Front Camera: So lots of goals for the day. Here they are, and just to know what we have like over 150 attendees attending kind of in person, and virtually; and I am assuming that the reason is because people really care about the topic of food. And that's because food is really, you know, at the core of who we are as humans and our relationship with each other, the cultures and the earth. And it's also the source of great inequities and vulnerabilities. We need food to live and in crises 26 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:51.610 Presenter Front Camera: that need is 27 00:04:51.620 --> 00:05:14.969 Presenter Front Camera: vulnerable, so that I think you're here to talk about that. And really here, under this last thing kind of the Ven diagram intersection of where we'll be talking today, because this conversation there's lots of components, but it's at the intersection of emergency preparedness, planning, and food resilience. Those are 2 communities of actors who Don't, who Haven't, talked to each other and been in community together a lot over the last 28 00:05:14.980 --> 00:05:28.009 Presenter Front Camera: years emergency planning has kind of been doing more of a preparing for the big one. The earthquake, once climate change and food systems, folks deal with everyday emergencies of people experiencing food and security 29 00:05:28.020 --> 00:05:35.939 Presenter Front Camera: on the ground, and are definitely dealing with climate change and the vulnerabilities that places on our food system. So i'm hoping today to bring those 2 conversations together. 30 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:55.539 Presenter Front Camera: So just some logistics, and requests their bathrooms and the hallway. Help yourself. We won't. Be taking a formal break, so just help yourself. We have lovely baked goods and coffee and drinks provided by Bison Coffee House. It's a native american-owned coffee house and collie. So please help yourself. 31 00:05:55.550 --> 00:06:12.060 Presenter Front Camera: Just make yourself You know, comfortable. We have a big agenda so hopefully we can follow it as planned more or less, and we will have time for kind of your participation from send. And we have that whole polling thing to try to also incorporate participation from folks joining online. And we'll see how it goes. 32 00:06:13.190 --> 00:06:33.249 Presenter Front Camera: So local contacts today we're focusing on the Portland Metro region, and we're actually incorporating Columbia County and Clark County into our discussion today. And that's in part because one of the main partners in this work the regional Disaster Preparedness organization. That's how they define the county. So it's a little bigger than the Metro kind of 3 counties we talk about. 33 00:06:33.530 --> 00:06:35.239 Presenter Front Camera: There's a lot of 34 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:47.250 Presenter Front Camera: things to consider like context. I would love to bring in a conversation. I'm going to be really brief today, but you know one is that we're on land historically cultivated by the Kalakuya malnoma, pacemist, and other native peoples 35 00:06:47.260 --> 00:07:06.110 Presenter Front Camera: who cultivated the area for first foods up their colonialism and and other processes. Their lands been stolen from them, and the food systems destroyed. And and now local native American residents have the highest rates of food, insecurity, and other kind of food, related diseases and challenges, including just access and food, but at the same time in native but 36 00:07:06.270 --> 00:07:15.129 Presenter Front Camera: native, like groups are leading efforts to reclaim kind of sovereignty, and our leading kind of the the the discussion around food systems, resilience. 37 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:34.529 Presenter Front Camera: There are lots of other important aspects of State region and regional food system. Around these issues, like a history of racial exclusion and segregation of other identities, Latino farm workers, black people from owning land Asian votes. I mean all those persists today, and inequities that we'll mention. That will kind of be circus a lot today. 38 00:07:34.540 --> 00:07:52.909 Presenter Front Camera: So that's a discussion that informs this kind of history and ongoing reality. And another thing is while we're focusing today on the food crisis during the pandemic, many people in our region face a crisis of food every day. Folks in the and we don't really know that. So even in the best of times, we're not resilient and many right, you know. 39 00:07:52.920 --> 00:07:59.950 Presenter Front Camera: At the same time the good system is a place where there's lots of opportunity for developing kind of better connections. So that's 40 00:08:00.220 --> 00:08:01.840 Presenter Front Camera: some great contacts. 41 00:08:01.890 --> 00:08:05.129 Presenter Front Camera: So this is the report I'm. Sharing the phase 42 00:08:05.170 --> 00:08:18.529 Presenter Front Camera: How off the presses are Not even. It's not published yet, because maybe some of the things that service today will be incorporated in. But there will be a report come in with this title. It might be emailed out to you after the event, or it will be released in the months after. 43 00:08:18.540 --> 00:08:30.379 Presenter Front Camera: and it is really part of a larger project phase. One was mentioned here, and you'll hear more about it in the second part of the session. But it's part of this effort to really look at our regional food system in terms of that regional resilience. 44 00:08:32.330 --> 00:08:33.289 Presenter Front Camera: So 45 00:08:35.220 --> 00:08:46.989 Presenter Front Camera: this is a point in the or I should say i'm sorry not to say i'm here. Well, you're seeing me in front of you 2 students really help me. Their names are up here and then 46 00:08:49.920 --> 00:09:12.539 Presenter Front Camera: running around doing all the other things today. So thank you. Meg and June is joining in Via Zoom and might be co-presenting with me, or we might have a technology challenging which not? And then i'll be presenting June's part. But I want you to know that June and I really are kind of the workers behind the report, and they interviewed 45 folks. Many of this room are joining via zoom, and then Also, we had a Community Advisory Board member, I think 47 00:09:12.550 --> 00:09:18.310 Presenter Front Camera: 3, or maybe all of them have made it today, and you'll hear remarks briefly from them after I present them. 48 00:09:18.370 --> 00:09:22.399 Presenter Front Camera: So this is a moment where i'll just check to see if June 49 00:09:22.450 --> 00:09:39.860 Presenter Front Camera: you unmute. We can hear you. I'll know it's working, and if I don't hear you. I'll proceed. Hello! This is Soy Jen. Can you guys see me? Yeah, Great? How do I show her many forms of technology day we were going in. Thank you so much. 50 00:09:41.450 --> 00:09:50.750 Huijun Tan: Go ahead, Jim. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Horse. So first I will go through some details about what we did in this project. 51 00:09:51.170 --> 00:09:52.560 Huijun Tan: So next slide 52 00:09:52.880 --> 00:10:01.459 Huijun Tan: we have identify nearly 200 anti-hunger organizations and other local and regional for systems. Actors. 53 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:15.089 Huijun Tan: Those include regional and local for banks school base for pantries, meal programs, multi-service centers, farmers, markets, and direct to market farmers 54 00:10:15.100 --> 00:10:30.890 Huijun Tan: and other related organizations, especially those serving culturally specific communities in the region. So in the in this project we reach out over a 100 organizations and eventually interview 40 to 50 organizations. 55 00:10:31.110 --> 00:10:41.969 Huijun Tan: Those are the focus we have in the interview the impact of the COVID-19 and other emergence emerges events on the food security 56 00:10:42.150 --> 00:10:47.869 Huijun Tan: front-line organizations responses and adaptations in response to those events 57 00:10:48.280 --> 00:10:53.580 Huijun Tan: and what type of supports and varies they face in serving people in foot, insecurity. 58 00:10:53.970 --> 00:11:00.510 Huijun Tan: and the lessons we can learn to, at events, to regional planning for a climate. We've seen an info systems. 59 00:11:01.160 --> 00:11:09.869 Huijun Tan: and at the end the ideas of how government and committee efforts can be better aligned to improve the regional foot, receiving 60 00:11:10.050 --> 00:11:15.649 Huijun Tan: So the map on the top shows those interview organizations, locations 61 00:11:15.750 --> 00:11:18.980 Huijun Tan: and prosimate the apartheid like serving areas 62 00:11:19.470 --> 00:11:30.940 Huijun Tan: and a Ch. At the bottom shows the diversity in types of the organizations. We are categorized, based on their focus and food system. 63 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:43.849 Huijun Tan: and they wear it in their focus on which committees and clients served, including youth, women, seniors, bipart communities, houseless, and other marginalized groups, like 64 00:11:43.900 --> 00:11:57.880 Huijun Tan: immigrants and refugees. So we acknowledged that there are more organizations like this out there. And we are just not able to reach every one of them at this project. So we just like spoke to some of them. 65 00:11:58.160 --> 00:11:59.660 Huijun Tan: So next slide. 66 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.040 Huijun Tan: So we're going to present the impact 67 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.839 and also the adaptations during COVID-19, 68 00:12:08.990 --> 00:12:10.090 Huijun Tan: our next one. 69 00:12:10.630 --> 00:12:19.550 Huijun Tan: So in our coding and data analysis we saw certain things emerge about the impact of COVID-19 and climate events. 70 00:12:19.620 --> 00:12:29.050 Huijun Tan: First is the foot insecurity got worse From the graph on the right side we can see Oregon experience the spike of foot 71 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:33.110 Huijun Tan: in security at at this beginning of the COVID-19. 72 00:12:33.770 --> 00:12:35.800 Huijun Tan: Okay, click for the quote. 73 00:12:37.010 --> 00:12:43.589 Huijun Tan: So I will present you some quotes here, but not every interview is, voices and inputs are represented. 74 00:12:43.660 --> 00:12:59.400 Huijun Tan: or I'll show here, so you can check out our report later. So here most of them mentioned that the increased demand for foot us assistant, including those never assessed for pantry before the pandemic 75 00:12:59.470 --> 00:13:06.790 Huijun Tan: and other water vulnerable groups, such as the house and people with health conditions or disability. 76 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:09.890 Huijun Tan: Can you click for it? Next quote? 77 00:13:13.950 --> 00:13:33.910 Huijun Tan: So the pandemic and climate events reflected deeper roots of problems, and exhibit the disparity caused by the intersectionality of other vulnerabilities, such as the institution, racism, and systematic oppression, poverty, houselessness, language, period there is. 78 00:13:34.050 --> 00:13:36.990 Huijun Tan: and those protected, and then the pay workers. 79 00:13:37.470 --> 00:13:44.700 Huijun Tan: So from the graph on the bottom right, we can see those who are lower income without college degree. 80 00:13:44.760 --> 00:13:47.139 Huijun Tan: like African Americans, and Hispanic 81 00:13:47.400 --> 00:13:51.840 Huijun Tan: and household with children, are more likely to suffer for the security. 82 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.669 Huijun Tan: So next slide. 83 00:13:55.250 --> 00:14:04.129 Huijun Tan: So organizations made a lot of adaptation, some of which have provided good learning experience to prepare for future crisis. 84 00:14:04.250 --> 00:14:08.920 Huijun Tan: including sourcing, preparing food distribution. This spreading food. 85 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:14.309 Huijun Tan: virtual program, adjustment, gearing more toward communities needs 86 00:14:14.340 --> 00:14:20.480 Huijun Tan: how, through uplifting and some other climate adaptations as well. So we will look into some details 87 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:22.700 next one. 88 00:14:23.700 --> 00:14:32.420 Huijun Tan: So many of the interview is noted that they adapt their food. Sourcing in face of the supply chain, challenges 89 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:39.240 Huijun Tan: the organization's capacity, such as infrastructure and staff, or to availability 90 00:14:39.310 --> 00:14:46.200 Huijun Tan: kind of determine whether or not, and how they're able to observe upsoft those effects of the changes. 91 00:14:46.460 --> 00:14:50.060 Huijun Tan: So some interview is discuss how their organizations have 92 00:14:50.100 --> 00:15:00.630 Huijun Tan: pursue new strategies to purchase from local small farms by own farm and also local restaurants in the region. 93 00:15:01.870 --> 00:15:10.929 Huijun Tan: Also some smaller organizations, maybe to adjust their sourcing method as their sources, like food banks change their distribution methods. 94 00:15:11.150 --> 00:15:12.290 Huijun Tan: So here 95 00:15:12.330 --> 00:15:15.359 Huijun Tan: basically every organizations mentioned that 96 00:15:15.510 --> 00:15:23.010 Huijun Tan: they need to adjust their how to providing services and distribute their food during the emergency events. 97 00:15:23.090 --> 00:15:28.520 Some of them make creative adjustments to their for distribution. Efforts 98 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:36.539 Huijun Tan: to meet their clients needs. Why mitigating the risk of the pandemic and emerging public health requirements. 99 00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:41.560 Huijun Tan: for example, changing changes from delivery to box pickup. 100 00:15:41.670 --> 00:15:52.839 Huijun Tan: to appointment slots due to the changing requirements and circumstances Also, considering the visibility for staff Volunteer and their clients 101 00:15:53.390 --> 00:15:55.450 Huijun Tan: next quote. 102 00:15:55.720 --> 00:16:02.070 Huijun Tan: So there are some online efforts, such as developing a new web tool, designing to help 103 00:16:02.170 --> 00:16:06.249 Huijun Tan: everyone have better knowledge about food resources 104 00:16:06.390 --> 00:16:11.750 Huijun Tan: and pivoting, farming, gardening, education programs to virtual classes 105 00:16:12.090 --> 00:16:16.279 Huijun Tan: and have other online events, including fundraising. 106 00:16:18.340 --> 00:16:30.720 Huijun Tan: So next organizations also describe how, being community and clients center, let them to make adaptation to better serve their clients. 107 00:16:31.390 --> 00:16:49.260 Huijun Tan: So, for example, new outreach efforts and efforts to gain feedback from their community and clients help to make sure that they're actually meeting their needs. So the quote here, changing the name and opening their services to wider range of users 108 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:59.260 Huijun Tan: to reduce those stigma like avoiding gathering. I identification information from clients for the inclusion purpose. 109 00:16:59.710 --> 00:17:00.899 Huijun Tan: Next, quote 110 00:17:01.640 --> 00:17:04.770 Huijun Tan: so many interviewees, and the size that 111 00:17:05.420 --> 00:17:15.429 Huijun Tan: they pay more attention to the cultural identities of their clients. Some organizations adjust how they may efforts to expand 112 00:17:15.530 --> 00:17:19.610 their relationship with racially, ethically diverse residents. 113 00:17:19.660 --> 00:17:26.669 Huijun Tan: and sourcing and offering food that is more cultural, relevant to their clients 114 00:17:26.900 --> 00:17:29.679 Huijun Tan: also being inclusive for all diets. 115 00:17:30.690 --> 00:17:32.020 Huijun Tan: Next, quote 116 00:17:32.490 --> 00:17:38.080 Huijun Tan: also for line. Serving organizations have to deal with other crisis. 117 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:44.940 Huijun Tan: including climate change, related weather events, such as the Wifi and smoke events 118 00:17:45.030 --> 00:17:49.729 Huijun Tan: in 2020, and the hit home in June, 2021. 119 00:17:49.890 --> 00:17:57.069 Huijun Tan: So interviewing individuals were able to raise funds specifically in response to the Wifi and 120 00:17:57.490 --> 00:18:02.099 Huijun Tan: hit events. One organizations for it here 121 00:18:02.470 --> 00:18:09.789 Huijun Tan: have for actively use their own resources to assist other committee community effects. 122 00:18:11.700 --> 00:18:12.859 Huijun Tan: The next one. 123 00:18:15.800 --> 00:18:19.029 Huijun Tan: Yes; so interviews highlighted that 124 00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:31.229 Huijun Tan: they receive much support from community in form of finance and material donations, as well as services and volunteers, particularly editing of the pandemic. 125 00:18:31.470 --> 00:18:32.270 Huijun Tan: So 126 00:18:32.810 --> 00:18:34.240 Huijun Tan: can you show the quote 127 00:18:34.940 --> 00:18:40.199 Huijun Tan: So funding from the Government has has been a vital support 128 00:18:40.260 --> 00:18:43.810 Huijun Tan: for organizations to go through the challenges they face 129 00:18:43.950 --> 00:18:57.459 Huijun Tan: funding like ppp loans, and the local regional with statewide grants and some of the Grants enable them to buy food directly from farms own, and operated by bipart groups. 130 00:18:57.670 --> 00:19:01.800 Huijun Tan: and also purchase from the local restaurants as well. 131 00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:10.300 Huijun Tan: So the expanded. A snap program, and social benefits available during the pandemic also increased the opportunity 132 00:19:10.330 --> 00:19:15.849 Huijun Tan: to spend those funds at farmers farmers markets wear healthy food. 133 00:19:16.050 --> 00:19:19.770 Huijun Tan: and i'll save outdoor shopping. We're available 134 00:19:20.560 --> 00:19:24.140 Huijun Tan: also. Those committee, staff and volunteers provide 135 00:19:24.230 --> 00:19:27.909 Huijun Tan: provided the ability to pivot in the whole process. 136 00:19:28.250 --> 00:19:29.590 Huijun Tan: Next quote 137 00:19:30.630 --> 00:19:45.200 Huijun Tan: so collaborations collaborating with other organizations, help organizations to combine efforts, trace and uplift one another, to be able to fit more clients and residents. 138 00:19:45.390 --> 00:19:53.689 Huijun Tan: and last a lot less. The clients feedback as an extra motivation to continue moving things forward 139 00:19:54.930 --> 00:19:56.280 next. Yeah. 140 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:05.100 Huijun Tan: So most of the organization face significant challenges and barriers to adapting to the new environment. For example, the in 141 00:20:05.130 --> 00:20:07.710 Huijun Tan: insufficient and rigid funding. 142 00:20:07.780 --> 00:20:17.450 Huijun Tan: as some organizations didn't qualify for funding their budgets were to too high to have their costs covered by the limited fund. 143 00:20:17.760 --> 00:20:23.629 Huijun Tan: or the funding to just become, you know, or to get a stop before the pandemic is 144 00:20:25.080 --> 00:20:26.570 Huijun Tan: next quote 145 00:20:27.570 --> 00:20:33.539 Huijun Tan: So supply chain a challenge to have affecting many sectors and people in the past few years. 146 00:20:33.650 --> 00:20:38.300 Huijun Tan: but for this foot organizations, challenges also included 147 00:20:38.330 --> 00:20:47.369 Huijun Tan: picking up supplies, the ability to portion hot foods safely get access to cultural nurturing foods. 148 00:20:47.410 --> 00:20:51.739 Huijun Tan: or increase the staff or volunteer requirements to repackage grids. 149 00:20:52.090 --> 00:20:53.020 Huijun Tan: So 150 00:20:53.420 --> 00:21:02.219 Huijun Tan: there are also some limits on staff and voluntary capacity, because of the sourcing and supply difficulties mentioned before. 151 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:07.950 Huijun Tan: Also, it was also also with due to the health concern by all their 152 00:21:07.970 --> 00:21:09.550 residents. 153 00:21:09.930 --> 00:21:16.740 Huijun Tan: and also unpredictable exposure, and the illness of a worker, and just over, up and out. 154 00:21:17.830 --> 00:21:23.969 Huijun Tan: and during the pandemic they have challenges in meeting the health sanitation requirements. 155 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:36.930 Huijun Tan: many organizations, also implementing additional and safety measure to meet the staff and volunteer and clients expectations which also added the extra burden 156 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:44.520 Huijun Tan: in terms of the staff and volunteers Time budget, and also complicated for distribution, as well. 157 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:54.800 Huijun Tan: So for dispersion barriers. Some organizations mentioned. It's also in form of gatekeeping, funding, or inaccessible, a snap benefit. 158 00:21:55.170 --> 00:21:58.490 Huijun Tan: or just over off with Ss concern. 159 00:21:59.650 --> 00:22:10.129 Huijun Tan: So some organizations also spoke to the lack of materials in multiple languages or online communications leading to a lack of earned trust 160 00:22:10.150 --> 00:22:15.029 Huijun Tan: and miscommunications about their services or resources. 161 00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:20.090 Huijun Tan: It also led to the inability to meet certain intersectionalities. Right 162 00:22:21.230 --> 00:22:24.619 Huijun Tan: So for the next. Oh, I think the coolest year 163 00:22:24.750 --> 00:22:28.470 Huijun Tan: so farmers are oftentimes overlooked 164 00:22:28.910 --> 00:22:30.719 Huijun Tan: in the foot system. 165 00:22:30.870 --> 00:22:36.780 Huijun Tan: Farmers a particular press during the pandemic and climate related events. 166 00:22:38.300 --> 00:22:39.790 Huijun Tan: so next slide. 167 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:47.849 Huijun Tan: so they are notably mixed reviews about assistance and support from the local government. 168 00:22:48.330 --> 00:22:50.029 Huijun Tan: Next quote 169 00:22:50.450 --> 00:22:54.320 Huijun Tan: some positive experiences include. 170 00:22:54.390 --> 00:23:05.150 Huijun Tan: It includes government providing, funding and the abilities to communicate about Covid protocols and coordinate with other agencies and departments. 171 00:23:05.300 --> 00:23:08.419 Huijun Tan: and their ability to set up and volunteer. When. 172 00:23:08.570 --> 00:23:10.779 Huijun Tan: then, their numbers were low 173 00:23:10.890 --> 00:23:16.430 Huijun Tan: and the continuation of strengthening the relationship throughout the toughest time 174 00:23:17.320 --> 00:23:18.410 Huijun Tan: next one. 175 00:23:20.080 --> 00:23:25.370 Huijun Tan: But some organizations did not experience such positive leadership. 176 00:23:25.410 --> 00:23:32.159 Huijun Tan: Instead, just spoke to the lack of trust and lack of communications with local government. 177 00:23:32.590 --> 00:23:38.880 Huijun Tan: Again, Farmers, especially direct market farmers, felt particularly overlooked. 178 00:23:39.590 --> 00:23:45.959 Huijun Tan: Some organizations express the lack of creative problem solving from government. 179 00:23:46.100 --> 00:23:51.630 Huijun Tan: and they're originally in adjusting the problems they point out during the pandemic 180 00:23:52.730 --> 00:24:06.520 Huijun Tan: some spoke to the lack of accountability in funding and support like how pandemic funds were spent, and how funders, including local Government did not follow up to make sure, funding 181 00:24:06.610 --> 00:24:10.890 Huijun Tan: what actually being spent to help those most innate. 182 00:24:11.950 --> 00:24:13.029 Huijun Tan: So next one. 183 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:20.930 Huijun Tan: So next I will pass back to Dr. Horse, and she will continue to talk about the lessons we learn from this project. 184 00:24:22.010 --> 00:24:31.350 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, thanks, June. I'll be brief here, so I can kind of see the Lord, my Community Advisory Board members. So just the next minute or 2 after shock. So 185 00:24:31.430 --> 00:24:39.750 Presenter Front Camera: yeah, June shared kind of some highlights of our conversations with 45 interviewees, and then, like, we tried to understand what are the lessons learned across them. So here are some. 186 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:55.120 Presenter Front Camera: and really I am in awe of the effort our frontline serving org did put in during the last 2 plus years of prices, and always and they kept people fed, and they kept like our region going, and any of you are in the room. So thank you. 187 00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:06.640 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah. So thank you. And you're still doing the work. It's not that it ended. And now you're on vacation. You're like still doing the work, and I I like, you know, folks in the room who like. 188 00:25:07.080 --> 00:25:20.250 Presenter Front Camera: That's what you're going to go back and do after today. So thank you. And at this, and I think we a not like everybody collectively, might assess that we are not really prepared. If the next, the next big crisis is just to could happen tomorrow, it's it's still ongoing many. 189 00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:37.189 Presenter Front Camera: 10 to 12% of our communities still food and secure, and many are out entering near the edge of that. So we're not prepared. There's a leader to vacuum in terms of food governance. Nobody really at the city, county, or region or State necessarily sees themselves as a leader in the system, and there's not kind of identified roles. 190 00:25:37.350 --> 00:25:50.290 Presenter Front Camera: The third lunch pretty obvious that many people are hungry. It's not food insecure. It's economic insecurity at the heart, right? And housing and security. They're all connected from line ours, you know, need more support that one's pretty obvious. 191 00:25:50.300 --> 00:26:02.619 Presenter Front Camera: As we move forward. We can't do things we've done them in the past, and there is opportunity. Lots of folks we're mentioning in this emergency preparedness planning world. And among the resilient food system you're on, there's room to be more creative. 192 00:26:02.650 --> 00:26:19.349 Presenter Front Camera: So some big idea. I heard over and over again that it would help if there was leadership kind of coming from other local regionals at some level to coordinate, to have a shared plan of action, have elected officials, care about the issue type resources, Staff identified roles, possibly a Food Policy Council. 193 00:26:19.360 --> 00:26:27.829 Presenter Front Camera: obviously number 2 doesn't go away. It's hard. It's hard to work in food and not also be able to solve Housing crisis and other basic needs 194 00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:40.599 Presenter Front Camera: that one we might not solve today, but it's always kind of just a parallel conversation and kind of again going back to as we do emergency planning for earthquakes and climate change and other crises. How do we do it differently? So it's also building resilient food systems. 195 00:26:41.210 --> 00:26:55.440 Presenter Front Camera: And then here's kind of if we had a dream kind of local leadership, some of you all working for our local government as a through policy planner or food systems, leader or something. What might be some of your job tasks. Here's a few that came from interviewees. 196 00:26:55.690 --> 00:27:02.040 Presenter Front Camera: But at this point i'd like to invite. I think most of you are in the room, Stephanie. All 100 of glory on Jacobson to come on up 197 00:27:02.090 --> 00:27:04.430 Presenter Front Camera: and we'll take to maybe her out, maybe we next. 198 00:27:09.830 --> 00:27:10.820 Presenter Front Camera: hey? 199 00:27:11.250 --> 00:27:25.689 Presenter Front Camera: So yeah, have a seat anywhere. I don't think i'll be able to make it so, 3 of you. So we were lucky to be guided by the Community Advisory Board that we did on how we were going to enter who we were going to introduce, what questions we were going to ask. 200 00:27:26.020 --> 00:27:38.119 Presenter Front Camera: They can underscore the need to compensate our interview with, and they sift it through the data with us. They've seen versions of the draft report, and so today it's kind of their chance to share in front of you all their reaction. So the sessions to you all are just. 201 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:54.940 Presenter Front Camera: So did what we share and capsule your experience, or what would you add especially kind of to the what do we do next? And if you reach could speak for about 5 min, Max, just so that we can kind of move to the next phase. But thank you so much for being here and go ahead. We'll just go down the line and start with you, and that's okay. 202 00:27:54.990 --> 00:28:03.879 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, i'll go first. So my name is Sydney Clark, and i'm the partnerships and programs manager at the Vancouver Farmers Market. 203 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:08.919 Presenter Front Camera: and our kind of frontline perspective. Really 204 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:14.320 I was in March 2020, 205 00:28:14.380 --> 00:28:16.640 Presenter Front Camera: and 206 00:28:17.310 --> 00:28:44.799 Presenter Front Camera: you know everything started to shut down. We were told by our city that we could not open the farmers market, and if anyone's familiar with downtown Vancouver, there is no grocery store in downtown Vancouver Buses weren't running grocery store shelves were empty and our city instead of looking for creative ways to create pipelines to food, just said, No, you're an event. You're shut down. 207 00:28:44.810 --> 00:28:56.660 Presenter Front Camera: So we fought to the nail for about 2 months to be able to showcase that we are a place where people access, food or not a special event. 208 00:28:56.750 --> 00:29:14.139 Presenter Front Camera: And you know, after a little bit of time, we were able to reopen the farmers market, and we just saw demand skyrocket for local food, especially as snap usage began to increase 209 00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:27.949 Presenter Front Camera: at the market from 2019 to 2,021. We saw a 450% increase in Snap and stock market match that's the Washington's version, You guys might know it as step up food books. 210 00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:43.339 Presenter Front Camera: So 450% increase from 2019, and we were seeing people who, you know, had never used these benefits before. Maybe their kid got peevt for like in place of school lunch. 211 00:29:43.350 --> 00:29:48.119 So we were just continuing to help. You will navigate using those benefits at farmers markets 212 00:29:48.590 --> 00:29:53.729 just like one thing that really came out of this project, and i'm so thankful for. 213 00:29:53.780 --> 00:30:04.059 Presenter Front Camera: and I hope it's something we continue to do is really to take this like regional view of disaster preparedness. 214 00:30:04.130 --> 00:30:14.290 Presenter Front Camera: A lot of, and i'm a little bit about this ever those Vancouver is really left off of like left out of the conversation. Really often. 215 00:30:14.300 --> 00:30:39.669 Presenter Front Camera: you know, a lot of funding is divided by the river divided upon state lines, but we're really a part of the Portland Metro. We're way farther from Seattle, but we're just often left out of the Seattle conversations often left out of Portland conversations. But if there's a food crisis or any other disaster that's happening in Portland, Metro like Vancouver, it's happening in Vancouver, too. 216 00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:57.369 Presenter Front Camera: So I was really really thankful that this project kind of took a staff at looking at disaster preparedness in terms of, you know, food from a more regional level, because that's something we just don't see that much, and it's often divided by State one 217 00:31:05.660 --> 00:31:13.790 Presenter Front Camera: what everybody. My name is, Jason Valentine, the executive director of feed the mass. 218 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:32.819 Presenter Front Camera: This this program, you know, to be asked like, what is your experience and what you do go through during this pandemic feed the mass. We are in the business of kindness. When the pandemic hits I lost my job. I had. We did cooking classes at the time. 219 00:31:32.830 --> 00:31:48.410 Presenter Front Camera: and I didn't know what to do. We had $500. Our bank accounts. We didn't have any extra funding grants coming in. We couldn't do in person classes, so I literally just started feeding the mass and started. Take that cover in bucks and start making meals and given to people. 220 00:31:48.570 --> 00:31:59.520 Presenter Front Camera: and that little bit of kindness kind of spread among people, because it was about 2 months that we're in, you know. Shut down, and everybody is like 221 00:31:59.530 --> 00:32:12.259 Presenter Front Camera: with all this. Food is going bad, and there's people that are hungry, and for businesses that that just produce, or that's how food they have no way of getting to people. So we were kind of that intermediate. 222 00:32:12.300 --> 00:32:27.320 Presenter Front Camera: So we started just making meals, and then the height of the pandemic like the Tiv top. We were doing about 6,000 meals a week out of the 1,000 square foot kitchen. So need to say, it was hectic. It was crazy. 223 00:32:27.330 --> 00:32:41.999 Presenter Front Camera: but it was also a situation of people understood the importance of unconditional love through neighbor, even especially in times of emergencies, when the fires happened in 2,020 September eleventh, 2,020. 224 00:32:42.010 --> 00:32:55.590 Presenter Front Camera: It was a very easy situation for us to go into emergency mode, because we've already been proactively doing the things that we've been doing, and when we talk about leadership it was really a much a situation of. We had our finger in the pulse. 225 00:32:55.600 --> 00:33:25.560 Presenter Front Camera: We had conversation with our community at that time a lot of people were working, so the community felt like they had to do something. So, having an opportunity to go out and other house and help their community, even though it's dangerous, even though people are dying every day, even though Covid's real people still felt it was important to shawn kindness to the neighbors one way or another. So we have people that were delivering. We have people that were cooking there. We had people who were biking meals to people, and that was super important. 226 00:33:25.570 --> 00:33:39.220 Presenter Front Camera: much like a lot of mutual aids that were happening in the entire community. It was very much community leadership. It wasn't a situation of one person or myself, saying, we need to go this route. It was a conversation with each other. 227 00:33:39.260 --> 00:33:45.559 Presenter Front Camera: So when we talk about you know what we learned. Leadership vacuums 228 00:33:45.590 --> 00:33:51.330 Presenter Front Camera: are going because there is no investment into leadership. There's investment in managers. There's investment into 229 00:33:51.530 --> 00:34:08.100 Presenter Front Camera: politicians, but there is no investment into bringing up young people to show kindness and show how to lead another person to a better life than you. But for us is very much a situation of 230 00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:22.810 Presenter Front Camera: even as a nonprofit we wish to show for-profit businesses how to take care of their community. There's tons of people who are gentrifying our Our communities. Businesses are to interfere in our communities. And they have no stake in the communities that they're identifying it. 231 00:34:22.889 --> 00:34:24.290 Presenter Front Camera: So if they 232 00:34:24.350 --> 00:34:34.740 Presenter Front Camera: it's a grocery store, high profile grocery store with a lot millions and billions of dollars backing. It moves into a neighborhood, and they do nothing for the people that are in that neighborhood. Why are they there? 233 00:34:35.170 --> 00:34:44.570 Presenter Front Camera: So there is a conversation of us really going into more of a political aspect, but also has more of an ethical aspect of saying. 234 00:34:44.590 --> 00:34:46.899 Presenter Front Camera: What are we as organization 235 00:34:47.050 --> 00:35:02.250 Presenter Front Camera: doing to better our community, even if it's 10%, even if it's one. What are you doing for your community, and that's been something that we're super excited to see that. You know leadership is a big thing, and every business is a potential leader in their community. 236 00:35:02.660 --> 00:35:04.000 Thank you. 237 00:35:04.230 --> 00:35:04.790 Presenter Front Camera: But 238 00:35:09.030 --> 00:35:22.220 Presenter Front Camera: it's nice to see everyone. I want to thank me and everybody for participating. This was a huge endeavor to do, because 239 00:35:22.310 --> 00:35:40.720 Presenter Front Camera: it. This was the first time, probably, and I have a lot of experience in food and social services, and Portland as a whole, especially the central city down account. This is the first effort I've ever seen to identify 200 food organizations. We've never done that, and it's all. 240 00:35:42.140 --> 00:35:56.919 Presenter Front Camera: Most of us probably know that you can go to the Organ Food Bank and you can plug in your zip code, and you can find your food pantry. But that left out all the gleams and left out all the 241 00:35:57.380 --> 00:36:04.549 Presenter Front Camera: agricultural, all the other segments that provide food and distribute food. 242 00:36:04.640 --> 00:36:21.839 Presenter Front Camera: So this was the first time, and I've been in. I give you a little bit of my background, but I've ever seen this put together, and I was stunned at the list. So I want to think Megan and her team for sourcing that. And then there was so, there was a lot of 243 00:36:22.850 --> 00:36:25.009 Presenter Front Camera: questions and participation. 244 00:36:26.790 --> 00:36:31.429 Presenter Front Camera: So with the end in mind, I hope that because of this 245 00:36:31.540 --> 00:36:36.809 Presenter Front Camera: we can have some funding and leadership to start doing and resource directory 246 00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:52.350 Presenter Front Camera: to identify what these are and to keep it updated. Some of you who are here, or may know of a little book that we give to houseless people on the street called Street Groups, which is a little resource guide that tells you where you can go to certain services. We need to do that with 247 00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:54.100 Presenter Front Camera: food and disaster. 248 00:36:54.150 --> 00:36:57.870 Presenter Front Camera: We just don't have it. Haven't said that 249 00:36:58.410 --> 00:37:00.330 Presenter Front Camera: when 250 00:37:01.080 --> 00:37:12.919 Presenter Front Camera: in March sixteenth, and 2,020, I had just merged. I was the executive director of a little organization that provides resident services in subsidized housing primarily in the Central Sea. 251 00:37:13.010 --> 00:37:23.250 Presenter Front Camera: So we work at Fsros, and other types of subsidized housing through the housing authority of Portland, which is home forward through reach, through rows, through many other 252 00:37:23.290 --> 00:37:26.060 Presenter Front Camera: owners of affordable housing. 253 00:37:26.850 --> 00:37:29.089 Presenter Front Camera: There was a stay at home order. 254 00:37:31.730 --> 00:37:42.820 Presenter Front Camera: Frankly, the social service agencies pulled out the delivery of food boxes to residents that were seniors for disabled in the buildings pulled out. 255 00:37:44.390 --> 00:37:50.099 Presenter Front Camera: I had to make some hard decisions about how we would access buildings since we were in those buildings. 256 00:37:50.120 --> 00:37:52.490 Presenter Front Camera: Because of that. 257 00:37:52.870 --> 00:38:03.360 Presenter Front Camera: and because, frankly of my background in food service distribution, both retail and food service for 25 years before I joined the nontrivial. 258 00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:12.199 Presenter Front Camera: We organize really quickly with our partners. Some of the food pantries that could no longer deliver, because they lost all their elderly volunteers. 259 00:38:12.220 --> 00:38:24.150 Presenter Front Camera: We partner together really quickly, and we started delivering that I think you saw a picture up there bags of groceries to 22 properties here in the central city 260 00:38:25.080 --> 00:38:27.610 Presenter Front Camera: by coordinating with either 261 00:38:27.630 --> 00:38:30.200 Presenter Front Camera: a high functioning resident in the building 262 00:38:30.290 --> 00:38:41.049 Presenter Front Camera: the property manager that oftentimes exited the building, and was no longer working on site that may, whoever we could find that we could coordinate delivery of food. To 263 00:38:41.340 --> 00:38:48.839 Presenter Front Camera: most of our food came. We partnered with Clay Street table. Some of you may know that, and that's been a partner. 264 00:38:49.670 --> 00:39:08.510 Presenter Front Camera: and we received orders. We had sign ups, I think, on the average, we delivered anywhere from depending on the size of the building 30 bags to 150 bags per building, and that's really pulling a lot of volunteers in most of the bags weigh about £20. 265 00:39:08.520 --> 00:39:12.270 We use private vehicles. So it was a huge effort. 266 00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:19.390 Presenter Front Camera: and in the middle of this I got a call from the Ancient Health and Service Center that said 267 00:39:19.690 --> 00:39:21.499 Presenter Front Camera: first or 268 00:39:21.560 --> 00:39:41.049 Presenter Front Camera: and shame on me. I actually ran the part in classical Chinese garden lawsuit. For 8 years I did not know. We had 3,000 Asians living in downtown and subsidized buildings. I had no idea. Anyway, I got a call from the executive director, and we need help. The seniors can't come over so they would take the bus 269 00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:50.869 Presenter Front Camera: from here over to 90, s and foster for their meal service, and just for socialization and isolation, which is Tanton. 270 00:39:51.090 --> 00:39:52.269 Presenter Front Camera: One of the 271 00:39:52.320 --> 00:40:07.619 Presenter Front Camera: things that happened with the food is that it was also a means of removing a little bit of isolation during the pandemic, and providing a little bit of socialization by having that human contact because we were one of the few people that was actually on site. 272 00:40:08.520 --> 00:40:31.599 Presenter Front Camera: Anyway, that led me to saying, okay, we can help with this issue. You can't get the seniors over a second. We'll just deliver food bags. Well, now, that went on for 2 months, and we realized that most of our Asian seniors were removing the pork and beans and putting it on in the lobby, removing all the things that they didn't eat, because it wasn't part of their diet, and I went. Oh, my God, we can't do this! 273 00:40:31.710 --> 00:40:33.910 Presenter Front Camera: So then 274 00:40:34.670 --> 00:40:44.960 Presenter Front Camera: I am a part of I'm. On the board of a Chinese American Citizens Alliance organization. They seeded the first Asian food pantry with about $5,000. 275 00:40:45.050 --> 00:40:58.539 Presenter Front Camera: Well, I was desperately trying to get well. Organ Food Bank. Obviously doesn't do culturally specific food, but they're working on it. I gotta be fair. It's going to be a long road. 276 00:40:58.970 --> 00:41:16.519 Presenter Front Camera: and we also got some grants I was. We were very fortunate that I work in this nonprofit world, and because of our merger with the Hollywood senior center and our partnership with the organ Health authority, we were able to pull together funding by some refrigeration. 277 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:35.650 Presenter Front Camera: pull together our retail partner, branch 99 currently but also every market that we could find that would give us food. So we started the Us. Culturally specific food pantry which still operates today, which we've taken into the second reiteration now about growing our own produce. 278 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.939 It's been really challenging to do. 279 00:41:38.990 --> 00:41:41.880 Presenter Front Camera: And anyway, then we started 280 00:41:42.060 --> 00:41:57.370 Presenter Front Camera: the model of delivering Asian groceries to the Asian seniors post pandemic. Now we still function once a month as an Asian pantry. It's a walk up pantry. And now there's really a lot of focus on socialization. 281 00:41:57.410 --> 00:41:59.069 education. 282 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:12.010 Presenter Front Camera: and all the things like we just sell the last food pantry. It's Chinese New Year. We just celebrate a Chinese New Year. We have people coming from downtown all the way over to the Hollywood senior Center, which is northeast, fortieth 283 00:42:12.020 --> 00:42:23.149 Presenter Front Camera: in the Hollywood district. So that's one of the positive outcomes of the pandemic, because that had that not happen we probably never would have started this project. 284 00:42:24.740 --> 00:42:26.679 Presenter Front Camera: I do want to talk about 285 00:42:26.720 --> 00:42:44.479 Presenter Front Camera: some of the the Trans. So let's talk about another kind of disaster that the regional group needs to think about. I'm. Also part of a group. I live in Cedar Hill, some part of a group called Cedar Hills, ready. We are linked up with Beverton to do. Wake up 286 00:42:44.730 --> 00:42:45.500 Presenter Front Camera: quite 287 00:42:45.790 --> 00:42:57.940 Presenter Front Camera: planning, and I think about a different kind of disaster. Now, what if we have an earthquake? And there are no utilities, so you can't cook your food. Your your supply is tainted. 288 00:42:57.950 --> 00:43:17.799 Presenter Front Camera: You have all kinds of issues. The most that we have done frankly anywhere. I think is a quake-up system, but earthquakes is to buy camping food what I call the free sky bo that you're supposed to restock every so often, and the water that you're supposed to change in your garage every so often. We really have not addressed whatsoever 289 00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:21.870 Presenter Front Camera: What happens when the big one strikes so. 290 00:43:22.560 --> 00:43:37.209 Presenter Front Camera: because that will probably also affect her growing of food, or just how we actually and lastly, I think i'm going to get that by minute signal. I do want to say 2 things 291 00:43:37.220 --> 00:43:56.029 Presenter Front Camera: during the pandemic fema came in. And this is a great story with these wonderful boxes. That was some done through Pacific for the fruit, I think. But the mosses were meant for. Frankly, a white family of lore. Okay, I have people living downtown that live in 150 square feet. They're refrigerators. 292 00:43:56.040 --> 00:43:59.439 Presenter Front Camera: We couldn't get the blocks of cheese in there. We could 293 00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:02.279 Presenter Front Camera: get a gallon of milk in there with other food. 294 00:44:02.700 --> 00:44:09.460 Presenter Front Camera: and there was a day when all of us that received that were receiving female boxes. We toured them all apart. 295 00:44:09.650 --> 00:44:21.970 Presenter Front Camera: and we had, you know. And then, finding somebody that was willing to divvy up £10 of cheese for cut of a £50, because there's a liability issue with that. But anyway, all all of that 296 00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:28.209 Presenter Front Camera: was really difficult without spoiling food, and we there was a day that we spent. 297 00:44:28.310 --> 00:44:46.060 Presenter Front Camera: I don't know we went from fresh to to downtown Portland trying to get rid of gallons of milk, because no, it's one of the most ions believe it or not in the system. So there's something that needs to be done about that. I don't know what that may be. But lastly, I want to end with the fact that 298 00:44:46.760 --> 00:45:04.030 Presenter Front Camera: effective march first. We are the Federal Government will take away the emergency allotment of snap benefits. So normally, if you have an organ trail card or ebt card, you get your snap benefits. On the first to the ninth of the month. 299 00:45:04.130 --> 00:45:11.020 Presenter Front Camera: then the emergency allotment which has been going on the cards between the ninth and the twelfth. Every month 300 00:45:11.130 --> 00:45:22.390 Presenter Front Camera: is starts at $95, so it's significant. It goes to $95 up depending on your income and also your your family size. That's going away 301 00:45:23.290 --> 00:45:28.899 Presenter Front Camera: So we are gearing up now in our food pantries and all of our operations 302 00:45:28.990 --> 00:45:32.889 Presenter Front Camera: to be able to address the growing need 303 00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:38.479 Presenter Front Camera: for food and security that's going to happen starting March. 304 00:45:38.540 --> 00:45:44.980 Presenter Front Camera: That's part of the awesome emergency planning. So the need for an umbrella 305 00:45:46.030 --> 00:45:53.279 Presenter Front Camera: group, if you will, if you want to call it it's some sort of 306 00:45:53.580 --> 00:46:06.739 Presenter Front Camera: collaboration to learn more about what we do on the front lines, as well as what policy needs to be and what structure we can do to prepare for the next disaster that gets us. 307 00:46:06.750 --> 00:46:21.969 Presenter Front Camera: because, you know, food, shelter, and clothing. I'm a sociology, major, food, children, and clothing. That's what we have to do, and I really want to thank you for this opportunity to have this discussion, and I hope everybody's brain is working thinking about what happens next. 308 00:46:29.030 --> 00:46:32.629 Presenter Front Camera: Thank you all so much, and I love the energy in the room because 309 00:46:32.640 --> 00:46:50.239 Presenter Front Camera: these are some of the people feeding our region, and thank you for sharing your stories, and in some ways I wish we didn't have. We're going to move to the next phase. We have more speakers. It's a pack event that they warrant you. Thank you all. You're saying you're talking. I hope so. The conversation isn't over, we're just switching it up. 310 00:46:54.770 --> 00:46:58.740 Presenter Front Camera: And now, if our second panel will come up. 311 00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:06.270 Presenter Front Camera: Carol. I think you're going to take over here. I think me on tech support with some slide. Also. 312 00:47:06.580 --> 00:47:07.580 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah. 313 00:47:08.260 --> 00:47:11.350 Michelle. And 314 00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:14.080 Presenter Front Camera: yeah. 315 00:47:32.470 --> 00:47:34.870 Presenter Front Camera: Okay. 316 00:47:40.620 --> 00:47:43.430 Presenter Front Camera: all right. 317 00:47:44.140 --> 00:47:59.200 Presenter Front Camera: to go to have more coffee or B Street, and I don't want it to host these people carol, but to introduce we'll. We'll do instruction phone with Carol at the regional disaster. Permanent organization has been a parking on the project because 318 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:07.060 Presenter Front Camera: that organization is interested in food systems resilient. I actually acknowledged Laura in the bad. 319 00:48:10.540 --> 00:48:15.999 Presenter Front Camera: I was going to moderate the second, so I see the floor here. 320 00:48:16.220 --> 00:48:28.210 Presenter Front Camera: Thank you. So thank you. Everyone so much for having us today. We're very excited for the conversations that have been happening and continue to happen. And so my name is. 321 00:48:28.220 --> 00:48:40.009 Presenter Front Camera: I would be your moderator for this panel here today. But in my day-to-day job i'm a planning coordinator, as Megan mentioned at an organization called the Regional Disaster Preparedness organization or the R. 322 00:48:40.150 --> 00:48:46.840 Presenter Front Camera: And our we work at the R. Ipo. We center around the 5 County, Portland, Microsoft. 323 00:48:46.870 --> 00:49:02.269 Presenter Front Camera: And so so when I talk about our region or the areas that we cover it's it's it's clock, emiss Columbia and Moloma and Washington County for an orient. But then we also incorporate 324 00:49:02.540 --> 00:49:04.779 Presenter Front Camera: our average area, and where we work 325 00:49:04.790 --> 00:49:24.770 Presenter Front Camera: And so for those of you guys who don't know the the Rdp. Are familiar with our work. We are a partnership of. We AIM to be a partnership of government agencies, I to the public sector, non-profit organizations, the community organizations but then also private sector stakeholders with the overall AIM to increase the best routes legacy within our meetings. So again a 5, 10 region. 326 00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:32.340 Presenter Front Camera: and and how do we do that? And so we really see ourselves as and collaborators? 327 00:49:32.390 --> 00:49:37.329 Presenter Front Camera: And so we at the Rtpos believe that we can be more effective 328 00:49:37.380 --> 00:49:56.900 Presenter Front Camera: in how our region responds to disasters and facilitates our country from the bathroom. If we we plan together at a time and find across all sides and fill those relationships. Build those networks, you know, come together beforehand, so that when something happens we're already there, and we can 329 00:49:57.010 --> 00:49:58.670 Presenter Front Camera: find your way out of it together. 330 00:49:58.730 --> 00:50:04.420 Presenter Front Camera: and just be stronger together and leverage all of the resources and the capacity that each individual center has. 331 00:50:04.710 --> 00:50:10.650 Presenter Front Camera: And so some examples of how we do that. You know we do that through convening 332 00:50:12.160 --> 00:50:13.870 Presenter Front Camera: project specific 333 00:50:14.050 --> 00:50:34.210 Presenter Front Camera: teams to work on specific planning and fairness projects. We have discipline, specific work that meet on a regular basis for the things to talk about. You know what's going on within their discipline within their sector. And what are some of the things they're happening? What are some of the best practices that we can collaborate on that we can share across each other, so that we're not 334 00:50:34.300 --> 00:50:51.129 Presenter Front Camera: each expanding our own and individually, but we collectively come together. This we have to be all work together to be better at this together. And then also opportunities like this, where we bring a community together of people from different sectors to just come to the table, have conversations, and and do spread somewhat. Figure out. 335 00:50:51.140 --> 00:51:01.369 Presenter Front Camera: Where Where does our work intersect? Where do we have opportunities to make things better? And virtually we build ourselves up from here and leverage our our. 336 00:51:01.630 --> 00:51:04.019 And so 337 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:23.150 Presenter Front Camera: that's essentially the Rdpo. You know. How do we? How do we work together to build a more resilient and a better region for us, and what we're going to do is talk about regional food systems, resiliency. I will say of the Rtpo. This is work that we're just now starting to explore, to better understand both the regional food network, our food system. 338 00:51:23.160 --> 00:51:37.270 Presenter Front Camera: but also it's vulnerabilities of how that might affect it. To this legacy, and I do also want to get a call out also you. A lot of this work was started by my predecessor at the 339 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:54.270 Presenter Front Camera: and she a couple of years ago, you know at that time had been at the Rpio for for several years, and had noticed that in the 10 years or so that the Rpo. Has been around a lot of the work that we have done in the emergence of fairness, field and a lot of the work they're doing at the time, you know. We we move it. 340 00:51:54.320 --> 00:52:03.499 Presenter Front Camera: Emergency water. We looked at emergency shelter. We looked at, you know, fuel management like a degree management. But but there was a gap in terms of not really 341 00:52:03.530 --> 00:52:19.740 Presenter Front Camera: taking a hard look, or taking a deeper dive on a parrot and a and so a couple of years ago she spearheaded initial projects. I'm. At the Rfo to do initial skipping study that Kim is going to talk a little bit more about in a second, but really sort of launched this conversation 342 00:52:19.750 --> 00:52:37.689 Presenter Front Camera: and sort of got us started, and important for those relationships and collaborating on parallel studies that are going on in our reading 12 around, so we already view is about to embark on a much more robust systems assessment with Linux development. 343 00:52:37.700 --> 00:52:45.630 Presenter Front Camera: We should hopefully be starting it soon. And so i'm hoping that a lot of the conversation that we have here feeds into a lot of that work that we're that to work on. 344 00:52:45.770 --> 00:53:15.759 Presenter Front Camera: And so, with that being said, we have a really great panel here today that my team must put together, They're going to be a lot of perspective, I think, both from the front line level of State level to you know others who have worked both in this region. But then other urban areas as well to take best practices for what they see there. And so, without further ado, i'm going to go ahead, and they are going to introduce themselves to you a little bit about the organizations work that they do. We're going to spend some time learning about them individually. But then afterwards we'll have a little bit of a. Q. A. Session. We'll have 345 00:53:15.770 --> 00:53:27.399 Presenter Front Camera: some conversations and discussion. We'll ask some questions, and hopefully like me and said, we're not going to solve anything today, necessarily, but I think I hope that we're going to have a good kick off to ongoing conversation that we can build on. 346 00:53:28.130 --> 00:53:31.269 Presenter Front Camera: So with that I'm going to start with. 347 00:53:31.670 --> 00:53:44.319 Presenter Front Camera: Is this an order for how we want to do it? Or I think we're going to start with Kim to get this broader perspective and then come in zoom back to port. Okay, so it's not in my room. There. 348 00:53:44.650 --> 00:53:58.259 Presenter Front Camera: somebody Can I click through it here, or I can I click on it, can she? So I just got a few slides. But huge thanks to Vian and Meg and Greg 349 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:14.659 Presenter Front Camera: having a minute for organizing this and Molly, all of you, for organizing this amazing event. So I and the found our managing director of a small consulting organization based in Madison Wisconsin we work globally. 350 00:54:14.790 --> 00:54:16.049 Presenter Front Camera: And 351 00:54:16.890 --> 00:54:28.089 Presenter Front Camera: yeah, this is unique. What what you brought together here and and really amazing. And I want to thank our dpo for inviting me to work on that initials an initial scoping study which was 352 00:54:28.240 --> 00:54:29.819 Presenter Front Camera: remarkable. And 353 00:54:29.990 --> 00:54:35.609 Presenter Front Camera: we've worked in several other cities. But there are still very few cities, doing 354 00:54:35.710 --> 00:54:38.859 Presenter Front Camera: even what you're trying to accomplish here. So it's not 355 00:54:39.200 --> 00:54:43.739 Presenter Front Camera: you. It's not unique. And I started working in this field. 356 00:54:44.620 --> 00:55:01.620 Presenter Front Camera: which is not a field yet right Part of what we're doing is building the field of 10 years ago, and I can say it was a much harder sell before the pandemic. The pandemic is when everyone said, oh, the great United States actually has a threat to food system which before the pandemic 357 00:55:02.170 --> 00:55:19.500 Presenter Front Camera: if you're not on the so-called front lines. No one thinks we have a fragile food system, but we do. We did before the pandemic. We do now, we we do, and it's especially fragile to natural disaster. So 358 00:55:19.510 --> 00:55:27.130 Presenter Front Camera: I have a Phd. In agricultural economics and really within food production and cooperative space, then spend a 359 00:55:27.220 --> 00:55:35.119 Presenter Front Camera: most of my time in urban economic development, which is very strange combination. But I saw a few things increasing inequity. 360 00:55:35.260 --> 00:55:42.090 Presenter Front Camera: increasing massive natural disasters and hyper efficiency in our new system 361 00:55:42.590 --> 00:55:50.730 Presenter Front Camera: hyper efficiency. So we have all this just in time efficiency. If you're an economist, you're like Yay, but that also means very, very fragile. 362 00:55:50.880 --> 00:56:05.380 Presenter Front Camera: So what are we talking about here? Where? Where is the the crossover between disaster, response and resilience? So if we can click through just a few slides. Oh, sorry it's me back there. 363 00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:16.230 Presenter Front Camera: Okay. So so this is this is what kicked out my work. Hurricane Katrina, 2,005. Do you see? Can you see that little window of emergency response. I'm used to having that 364 00:56:16.640 --> 00:56:20.580 Presenter Front Camera: A click, a clicker somewhere. Can you see that little emergency response window? 365 00:56:20.980 --> 00:56:29.669 Presenter Front Camera: So back, then, most of the food food, you know. Talk to a lot of cities. What's your emergency response window? 366 00:56:29.930 --> 00:56:31.129 Presenter Front Camera: 3 weeks. 367 00:56:31.340 --> 00:56:33.220 Presenter Front Camera: That's emergency response. 368 00:56:33.760 --> 00:56:34.830 Presenter Front Camera: 3 weeks. 369 00:56:35.200 --> 00:56:36.209 Presenter Front Camera: Then 370 00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:45.630 Presenter Front Camera: there is some time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that Ps: and everyone's back to normal with the good system. 371 00:56:46.640 --> 00:56:48.720 Presenter Front Camera: It's a good researcher. I'm: like what 372 00:56:48.750 --> 00:57:02.509 Presenter Front Camera: to me. So we tried to graph it. What happened in Katrina, which was studied to death, which is amazing, and the emergency response you can see, really depends where you are. At Seventh Ward, one of the poorest areas in New Orleans. 373 00:57:03.260 --> 00:57:16.550 Presenter Front Camera: And first off, you know the food access where they're starting from differs. Then when they get back to that normal, whatever that was. Pre Shock takes a long time. What is the seventh word? Years 374 00:57:17.290 --> 00:57:18.270 Presenter Front Camera: years? 375 00:57:18.670 --> 00:57:27.970 Presenter Front Camera: One of the reasons we know about this. I was working in Boston at the time is the Boston Food Bank came down to help out New Orleans because of the American or 376 00:57:28.150 --> 00:57:32.839 Presenter Front Camera: feeding America. Right? How does this great emergency response system built in 377 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:34.279 Presenter Front Camera: that. So 378 00:57:34.460 --> 00:57:39.650 Presenter Front Camera: there's emergency response which rpo fema, etc. 379 00:57:39.940 --> 00:57:51.519 Presenter Front Camera: Say what you want, and there's lots of criticism we have right, and that they'll own up to it. But, man they do, and they get food where it needs to be food and water generally, but it's a short window. 380 00:57:51.650 --> 00:57:54.470 Presenter Front Camera: and may not be equitable, etc. Lots of things there 381 00:57:54.540 --> 00:58:01.650 Presenter Front Camera: and then. There is this recovery period where you still have a lot of 382 00:58:02.020 --> 00:58:10.450 Presenter Front Camera: spiked hunger and spike demand for food. And that's what we experienced in Covid. That story you told Jacobson, which 383 00:58:10.520 --> 00:58:18.289 Presenter Front Camera: Amazing and Gloria and all of you before amazing. We see that play out over and over and over again, and frankly. 384 00:58:18.510 --> 00:58:25.549 Presenter Front Camera: i'm furious about it. Right that shouldn't have to happen in United States. 385 00:58:25.590 --> 00:58:27.290 Presenter Front Camera: Oh, what else? 386 00:58:27.490 --> 00:58:28.399 Presenter Front Camera: That's 387 00:58:29.070 --> 00:58:31.920 Presenter Front Camera: all right we should. We can do better than that. 388 00:58:32.090 --> 00:58:46.370 Presenter Front Camera: With some planning we should figure out all right the the organizations that exists. Can we get you more money, etc. So let's look at our current model for natural disasters, because this happened. Look how long ago. That is right. Oh, 5. What's changed? 389 00:58:46.540 --> 00:59:02.679 Presenter Front Camera: That's nothing. Okay? Which sorry. But okay, this is what we get, hey, Military, this is what happens after disaster. This is the plan that most cities, big cities, great cities, high functioning cities. So not even New Orleans. Right? 390 00:59:02.730 --> 00:59:10.549 Presenter Front Camera: They they these are safe, right? This is what's gonna happen. Military? See the next one, right? We've got military next slide, Mike. You can click here. 391 00:59:11.460 --> 00:59:18.549 Presenter Front Camera: I'm here to my cross. Comes in. Yay got some nice hot, too, for you. What's the next one. Now this is the this is the best one. 392 00:59:18.930 --> 00:59:22.940 Presenter Front Camera: Celebrity Chef. Hey? I'm going to bring you big 393 00:59:23.220 --> 00:59:26.440 Presenter Front Camera: that bundle 394 00:59:28.230 --> 00:59:28.890 at 8, 395 00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:30.639 Presenter Front Camera: you 396 00:59:31.710 --> 00:59:41.160 Presenter Front Camera: as why this is upsetting. Okay. And then the celebrity chefness of which he just got like a 1 billiondollars from Basil, this guy who started in 2,010. 397 00:59:41.240 --> 00:59:44.909 Presenter Front Camera: Okay, so we can click forward. 398 00:59:45.330 --> 00:59:47.230 Presenter Front Camera: and then the front line. 399 00:59:47.730 --> 00:59:51.740 Presenter Front Camera: All these big organizations racing in 400 00:59:52.330 --> 00:59:53.480 Presenter Front Camera: lots of money. 401 00:59:53.580 --> 01:00:05.699 Presenter Front Camera: And what happens? All of you right? A lot of you in the room here, out there, scrambling, getting some of that money script, finding the warehouses, finding the food, etc., getting all that food out there that coordination. 402 01:00:06.020 --> 01:00:12.219 Presenter Front Camera: It always happens. Times like it's a miracle. Yeah, we found all these people, and just recently 403 01:00:12.250 --> 01:00:15.029 Presenter Front Camera: we've been hearing people say 404 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:22.240 Presenter Front Camera: it's going to break. We're on the brink of it, because the disasters are so big 405 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:28.979 Presenter Front Camera: and the people are ready are so impoverished, and food insecurity is so high already 406 01:00:29.070 --> 01:00:30.129 Presenter Front Camera: that 407 01:00:30.200 --> 01:00:31.640 Presenter Front Camera: that model 408 01:00:31.670 --> 01:00:32.839 Presenter Front Camera: the 409 01:00:33.030 --> 01:00:41.839 Presenter Front Camera: and all the scrambling that's happening. It just ain't gonna work pretty soon we're at the tipping point. So if we can have another 410 01:00:42.170 --> 01:00:45.669 Presenter Front Camera: go to the next slide. Sorry I keep it you there. So this is why. 411 01:00:46.180 --> 01:00:48.660 Presenter Front Camera: like the storms, they're just 412 01:00:49.310 --> 01:00:53.659 Presenter Front Camera: huge, and they happen simultaneously. 413 01:00:53.910 --> 01:00:59.750 Presenter Front Camera: And Puerto Rico is the other story. I always bring up what happened in Puerto Rico Disasters in the hurricanes. 414 01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:04.220 Presenter Front Camera: Fema didn't show up for the first time ever, and it was 415 01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:05.540 Presenter Front Camera: maybe 416 01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:08.819 Presenter Front Camera: racism and governance issues and everything else with Puerto Rico. 417 01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:15.959 Presenter Front Camera: But really what Fema says is, it's because they were out of resources? They were tapped out 418 01:01:16.770 --> 01:01:27.470 Presenter Front Camera: which is logical. There's not a single institution out there that can address the type of storms that we're having. That model no longer works. So you know on the next slide. 419 01:01:30.450 --> 01:01:31.339 Presenter Front Camera: So 420 01:01:31.690 --> 01:01:33.250 Presenter Front Camera: now we have. 421 01:01:34.120 --> 01:01:40.080 Presenter Front Camera: and this is what I've I've talked to Gloria before, because of her comments, which is great. But Gloria is the one who said 422 01:01:40.220 --> 01:01:47.149 Presenter Front Camera: so. These great things we're doing like the increase of local food systems great. We're gonna hear from that. That is the main thing. 423 01:01:47.270 --> 01:01:59.789 Presenter Front Camera: the next one urban agriculture at the next slide. Right vertical farming Great great These are all great things. They'll make your food system more resilient, but not necessarily in natural disasters. 424 01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:18.819 Presenter Front Camera: So so the local farming, the burning, vertical agriculture, and some cities, they're saying, Can you do it off the grid who can do it off the grid. Who can produce this stuff? And is it dispersed? So maybe we're getting vegetables, not from here, but from other local farmers elsewhere, where we can ship it in you, said the next slide. 425 01:02:19.820 --> 01:02:29.779 Presenter Front Camera: Great! So this is again. Now you're starting to see why we're coming back here to that emergency response and this gray area in the recovery period and the next slide. 426 01:02:30.520 --> 01:02:32.140 Presenter Front Camera: Okay. So current state 427 01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:37.149 Presenter Front Camera: and where we want to go we want to go to what the concept that we call sustain emergency food planning 428 01:02:37.430 --> 01:02:45.050 Presenter Front Camera: which the current State is federal. It's a hero, rescue, rescue, model, voluntary, philanthropic. 429 01:02:45.130 --> 01:02:46.880 Presenter Front Camera: and ephemeral. 430 01:02:47.210 --> 01:02:59.629 Presenter Front Camera: Because it never lasts. I remember when I talked to Laura about scoping, she said, we need to get this going fast. Can we do it fast? We met on another completely unrelated study. So can we, because it's going to disappear? 431 01:02:59.780 --> 01:03:06.990 Presenter Front Camera: Any of you who've been doing this for a while knows anything. You stand up during an emergency disappears. 432 01:03:07.030 --> 01:03:10.979 Presenter Front Camera: it's gone. And and then does anyone remember it now? 433 01:03:11.010 --> 01:03:12.689 Presenter Front Camera: No one remembers that 434 01:03:12.760 --> 01:03:22.569 Presenter Front Camera: that our job is to study that and study what happens, nobody remembers. Right? So let's go to some more sustain emergency through the city leadership. Really leveraging local assets 435 01:03:22.580 --> 01:03:36.589 Presenter Front Camera: in a very strategic way which requires mapping, permanent agency, mobilization plan and public funding. We need all of that to fill in the gap and make sure that we have a more equitable response to disaster. I think I probably have 10 min right 436 01:03:36.600 --> 01:03:43.859 Presenter Front Camera: over it. Okay, this is the stakeholder. This was the original mapping that was the precursor to Megan. This is the challenge. 437 01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:54.590 Presenter Front Camera: How right? So we start to frame it, and we start to put people in these different dynamics of how we would leverage them in the next slide I got some too much slide. 438 01:03:55.370 --> 01:04:10.500 Presenter Front Camera: Yup. So this is the other issue. You have priority hazards, earthquake, but you also have all these other hazards you have to right is the great like Rtpo planner, since fema etc. Right? They know to plan around individual hazards in addition to their quite. 439 01:04:10.520 --> 01:04:11.740 Presenter Front Camera: and I think that's it 440 01:04:12.500 --> 01:04:15.839 Presenter Front Camera: at the last one. Yep. Oh, in the grocery store, too. 441 01:04:16.370 --> 01:04:19.950 Presenter Front Camera: right? We need this type of data. You can just click through the last. Since we're over time 442 01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:22.830 Presenter Front Camera: blood mapping, we need to know. 443 01:04:22.860 --> 01:04:35.520 Presenter Front Camera: Okay, Once we map all the food assets in a city we overlay the disaster. This is from Toronto now to look at where your food warehouses are. Now you look at where your food banks are, and you can all right. 444 01:04:41.580 --> 01:04:53.989 Presenter Front Camera: Great, excellent. I think we're going down the line. Hey, Hi, everyone! Good morning! Pleasure to be here. It's on honor. Thank you, Dr. Horse, for bringing this through together, so my name is Sony Mccormick. 445 01:04:54.000 --> 01:05:05.279 Presenter Front Camera: I'm. The public private partnership program manager. So we lovingly call that P. 3, because it's a lot of piece to say for Oregon Department of emergency management. So at the State level. 446 01:05:05.390 --> 01:05:22.410 Presenter Front Camera: and I essentially serve in a summary as the conduit between the private sector and local and emergency state operations and including recovery. So with the State agency partners and the local and tribal emergency managers, and 447 01:05:22.420 --> 01:05:39.249 Presenter Front Camera: there, just a background of what P. 3 is nationwide. There is one typically in every State that does that coordination. Maybe 10 years ago it became sort of a movement to bring the private sector voice into the state 448 01:05:39.260 --> 01:05:58.860 Presenter Front Camera: and local and tribal emergency operations and recovery. It wasn't something that would really talked about much, having that voice amplifying that voice. And I have some really dedicated and passionate colleagues nationwide, that I work with in order to try to do just that and shift it From 449 01:05:58.870 --> 01:06:21.999 Presenter Front Camera: what can I, private sector do for us at the state and local level during emergency, and more about, what can we do for them to continue their operations to continue so that they, in any kind of interruption can can build the community and stay in the community and sustain the community in which they already live and work. 450 01:06:22.010 --> 01:06:45.159 Presenter Front Camera: and that's that was something kind of completely new. And when I came into this program some years ago, my job description essentially was, you know, reach out to the different businesses around the State and see you know. What could they provide us, or volunteer or donate a disaster? And I thought, Wait a minute, You know. I want this community to operate without. You know we don't want to take from them 451 01:06:45.170 --> 01:07:15.129 Presenter Front Camera: right. We want to give to them, and that's the whole kind of shift on its access, I think, and Covid, among all its trauma, did bring some positive will. Covid and I was making notes of all these different disasters that have happened in the last few years to talk to you and it and I ran out of paper, you know, went from Covid to fires, to ice, to chlorine, to back to Covid, and and all kinds of supply chain issues that we saw that we're 452 01:07:15.140 --> 01:07:25.390 Presenter Front Camera: interconnected we didn't know, before, and and that's one of the things that that helped shed light. Covid helps a light on that, you know, when when you were talking about. 453 01:07:25.470 --> 01:07:34.290 Presenter Front Camera: you know it's so close to being broken, so many things are so close to being broken. I mean when you mentioned Fema, for example, it it reminded me. 454 01:07:34.490 --> 01:07:48.020 Presenter Front Camera: and some years ago, when when there was a part that was made in some country that that was on back order for 6 months, and that part was needed for the large plane in order to for a Federal Government agency to move 455 01:07:48.030 --> 01:08:02.900 Presenter Front Camera: items to a location that had a disaster. So if they couldn't get the part. They couldn't move the plane. They couldn't help supply the local area. So I mean, there's so many impacts that we're seeing, which is really very powerful. And 456 01:08:02.910 --> 01:08:25.609 Presenter Front Camera: you know another thing that I I thought of during the the chlorine shortages, and how many of you part of that you know Here, I know you can't raise your hand, but some of you over there, you know. A few years ago we had a sort of an issue up here in the Northwest, and and very close to having potentially boil water notices for a lot of areas. And when I talk to food distributors they said, Well. 457 01:08:25.620 --> 01:08:55.229 Presenter Front Camera: we need that water for production, and if we don't have that water we have to shut down, and if we shut down that impacts Oregon, Washington, Alaska, you know Hawaii, Idaho. You know a lot of other states as well, because they can't boil their water, you know, to produce this food, so there's so many little inner relationships and impacts, and part of my role is to search those out and then connect those folks with the the State agency or the local or tribal government that can help 458 01:08:55.240 --> 01:09:03.479 Presenter Front Camera: solution, you know, create solutions so early on during Covid one of the examples I thought of when you were when you were talking was 459 01:09:03.490 --> 01:09:33.479 Presenter Front Camera: with the stockouts. You all remember that right? You go into the store, and there was maybe one roll of toilet paper. If you were lucky, you know, and it it was something that we all noticed, and we were curious. What was happening. What can we do to to solve that? Are there anything? Is there anything at the State level we can do to intervene? And we started reaching out to grocery partners and began a grocer partner. Coordination call that continues to this day because the disasters Haven't stopped since then, which has been really 460 01:09:33.490 --> 01:09:35.859 good to maintain that connection. 461 01:09:35.930 --> 01:09:53.390 Presenter Front Camera: But one of the impacts that they they they shared with us is employees were sick, you know, and and they didn't have enough folks to to stop, for example, or restock shelves, or I was hearing from a store in Eastern Oregon that, said the distributor passed us by. You know it. Didn't couldn't 462 01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:57.079 Presenter Front Camera: drop their normal delivery to us, because they had to make it 463 01:09:57.250 --> 01:10:12.629 Presenter Front Camera: you to one of the larger metro areas. And and so what can we do? And one of the solutions and I, you may remember, is we waved the pump your own gas, and that seems like Why would. How would that impact? But some of these stores have 464 01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:42.610 Presenter Front Camera: gas stations right in the front, so their employees could be removed from the pump and health with stock and that type thing. And it was actually a solution. And was it nice to pump your own gas for a while in this state? But it was one small solution, and there are many more gaps. There are many more solutions that need to be had. But we're constantly thinking and working and trying to reach out. But food, security and the food systems in particular is obviously one of our largest gaps. 465 01:10:42.620 --> 01:11:05.650 Presenter Front Camera: obviously one of the most important gaps, because we need it to sustain right. And we know, as we plan for the Cascadia event. We talk a lot about the major earthquake that we all think about all the time that when we work in this industry, you know it's the largest incident that we could face. We know exactly what was mentioned about power and water impacts, and 466 01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:14.109 Presenter Front Camera: how important forums like this are to bring those voices up to amplify those voices, because 467 01:11:14.120 --> 01:11:44.109 Presenter Front Camera: a lot of us in emergency planning can get very siloed, and what we're thinking and our our structure, and and it's very black and white on the paper. Right? We have this list of Here's what we're gonna do. And here's who we're gonna talk to. And then you lose the humanity in that a little bit. And I think these roles are so important, these forums. I will say to that. I work with some pretty amazing folks that are really dedicated to this issue at the State level, and I know 468 01:11:44.120 --> 01:11:52.509 Presenter Front Camera: the Rdbo. We work really closely for that exact reason as well. So i'm excited to be here. I'm excited to have this conversation 469 01:11:52.520 --> 01:12:15.399 Presenter Front Camera: like I said, I wrote down all these different things that were happening troubleshooting chlorine shortages, I think. One thing you mentioned to I I might be going on. You apologize. There's a lot that's happened last 3 years, but related to the fires. I got calls from a distribution center that one of the the issues delivering to food banks and that type of thing that said, we're in the path of the fire. 470 01:12:15.450 --> 01:12:44.270 Presenter Front Camera: You know what happens if our facility burns. Guess what you know. Half of the state won't get food. Oh, that's good to know. You know we mark that down now, and and say to that local community, hey, this is a critical infrastructure component, and and that's one thing at the state level, too, that we've been really focused on is building a list of what does that mean? What is critical infrastructure? Yes, it's power. Yes, it's! Water? Yes, it's food. Yes, it's food security. 471 01:12:44.490 --> 01:12:46.619 Presenter Front Camera: That's that's something that we're working on 472 01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:58.880 Presenter Front Camera: there's a lot here a lot. 473 01:12:59.120 --> 01:13:04.659 Presenter Front Camera: So i'm Malcolm Hoover i'm the co-director and co-founder 474 01:13:05.370 --> 01:13:11.739 Presenter Front Camera: of the Black features Farm here, and it's in Southampton's Portland and co-director of black and sovereign coalition. 475 01:13:11.940 --> 01:13:14.089 Presenter Front Camera: thanks for having me 476 01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:17.970 Presenter Front Camera: really happy to be here to be a part of this discussion. 477 01:13:20.860 --> 01:13:27.330 Presenter Front Camera: I guess the first thing that I have to say is like the elephant in the room is the she does never work for us like 478 01:13:30.550 --> 01:13:37.500 Presenter Front Camera: it Didn't work. It's never worked for black people for native people. We've been food insecure since we got here. 479 01:13:37.800 --> 01:13:41.079 Presenter Front Camera: and the irony is like you stole the land. 480 01:13:41.480 --> 01:13:42.559 Presenter Front Camera: You 481 01:13:42.830 --> 01:13:44.390 Presenter Front Camera: stole the land 482 01:13:44.910 --> 01:13:52.470 Presenter Front Camera: stole us over here to work the land, then deprived us of the food that we want in group such that 483 01:13:52.740 --> 01:13:54.070 Presenter Front Camera: now 484 01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:59.150 Presenter Front Camera: some I don't know 16 generations in slavery. 485 01:13:59.490 --> 01:14:02.219 Presenter Front Camera: 16 generations enslaved. 486 01:14:02.240 --> 01:14:06.429 Presenter Front Camera: and not just by America, but by the Spaniards 487 01:14:06.980 --> 01:14:09.679 Presenter Front Camera: and the people in the Portuguese like. 488 01:14:10.190 --> 01:14:12.290 Presenter Front Camera: you know, we have to start at the 489 01:14:12.590 --> 01:14:15.119 Presenter Front Camera: with the original culprits, and 490 01:14:16.430 --> 01:14:17.790 Presenter Front Camera: such that, like 491 01:14:19.470 --> 01:14:20.840 Presenter Front Camera: the 492 01:14:21.580 --> 01:14:24.760 Presenter Front Camera: results of that deprivation. 493 01:14:26.670 --> 01:14:29.100 Presenter Front Camera: are like in our DNA, 494 01:14:29.580 --> 01:14:30.230 Presenter Front Camera: like 495 01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:36.050 Presenter Front Camera: being forcefully impoverished, has literally created a different people 496 01:14:36.330 --> 01:14:38.180 Presenter Front Camera: that are 497 01:14:38.660 --> 01:14:41.029 Presenter Front Camera: fucking permanently impacted 498 01:14:41.480 --> 01:14:44.050 Presenter Front Camera: by white supremacy and capitalism. 499 01:14:45.090 --> 01:14:46.629 Presenter Front Camera: And so 500 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:50.030 Presenter Front Camera: we're running around all these little tiny band aids 501 01:14:50.230 --> 01:14:53.339 Presenter Front Camera: like, you know, when you scratch your finger and you get the little like 502 01:14:53.480 --> 01:15:00.690 Presenter Front Camera: circular cue band aid to put. So nobody has to be insulted by your scratch. 503 01:15:02.060 --> 01:15:03.710 Presenter Front Camera: But we're, looking at like 504 01:15:05.630 --> 01:15:15.110 Presenter Front Camera: a bomb dropped on of people. Multiple peoples. And then capitalism runs around with a little tiny band-aid like, oh, where can I put the band aid 505 01:15:15.370 --> 01:15:16.639 Presenter Front Camera: like 506 01:15:16.940 --> 01:15:18.810 Presenter Front Camera: you need to rebuild the bomb site? 507 01:15:20.320 --> 01:15:21.760 Presenter Front Camera: So 508 01:15:22.360 --> 01:15:32.719 Presenter Front Camera: and I say this like I work for the Government right? I work with parks. I've been a a sailor. I was in the navy for 8 years, and 509 01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:36.369 Presenter Front Camera: the entirety of my career has been a public service. 510 01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:37.460 Presenter Front Camera: Oh. 511 01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:39.429 Presenter Front Camera: the entirety of my 512 01:15:39.890 --> 01:15:41.620 Presenter Front Camera: has been serving the command. 513 01:15:42.540 --> 01:15:44.020 Presenter Front Camera: and so. 514 01:15:44.050 --> 01:15:45.929 Presenter Front Camera: like I know as a sailor. 515 01:15:46.810 --> 01:15:57.150 Presenter Front Camera: We got food, water, shelter to fucking iraq in the desert, in Afghanistan. 516 01:15:57.270 --> 01:15:59.009 Presenter Front Camera: in the mountains. 517 01:15:59.350 --> 01:16:02.660 Presenter Front Camera: in the most inhospitable terrain in the world. 518 01:16:03.450 --> 01:16:06.790 Presenter Front Camera: and we can get water and shit to to to Puerto Rico. 519 01:16:07.370 --> 01:16:10.349 Presenter Front Camera: I wonder what 520 01:16:12.040 --> 01:16:14.560 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like Katrina happened. 521 01:16:14.910 --> 01:16:17.750 Presenter Front Camera: and they're like oh, people are dying. 522 01:16:17.790 --> 01:16:19.740 Presenter Front Camera: People are drowning 523 01:16:20.090 --> 01:16:25.190 Presenter Front Camera: helicopter Helicopters were passing over the people who were on the rooftops. 524 01:16:25.360 --> 01:16:30.460 Presenter Front Camera: looking at them, waving people where dead bodies were floating in the streets. 525 01:16:31.160 --> 01:16:34.320 Presenter Front Camera: And most of us in America just watch that shit. 526 01:16:34.370 --> 01:16:36.149 Presenter Front Camera: and we're like man. That's horrible! 527 01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:38.340 Presenter Front Camera: That sucks for them. 528 01:16:39.030 --> 01:16:43.370 Presenter Front Camera: But you know what like. I was just in New Orleans, New York, New Orleans never. 529 01:16:45.670 --> 01:16:48.540 Presenter Front Camera: Tens of thousands of people were displaced. 530 01:16:48.870 --> 01:16:50.070 Presenter Front Camera: And so this 531 01:16:51.320 --> 01:16:52.760 Presenter Front Camera: this horror 532 01:16:53.400 --> 01:16:55.150 Presenter Front Camera: of insecurity 533 01:16:55.300 --> 01:17:01.399 Presenter Front Camera: is what we, the American people, when I include myself in that number because i'm an American, I vote on pay taxes. 534 01:17:01.430 --> 01:17:02.230 One here. 535 01:17:02.810 --> 01:17:04.990 Presenter Front Camera: I'm probably going to die here. I hope not them. 536 01:17:08.010 --> 01:17:10.329 Presenter Front Camera: because I don't want to give my body to this shit. 537 01:17:14.020 --> 01:17:16.199 Presenter Front Camera: You know this is the hard that we allow. 538 01:17:16.950 --> 01:17:18.409 Presenter Front Camera: and that we 539 01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:24.380 Presenter Front Camera: perpetuate for our own convenience, because we don't want to pay higher taxes. 540 01:17:24.580 --> 01:17:29.779 Presenter Front Camera: because we don't want to take on the military industrial complex where there's incredible waste. 541 01:17:29.840 --> 01:17:39.070 Presenter Front Camera: We just give the Pentagon trillions of dollars every year to like conduct war on our names that has nothing to do with the average American person. 542 01:17:39.480 --> 01:17:48.680 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like I don't know how much money we're giving to Ukraine right now, which I support like they should be supported for whatever like they, they shouldn't be invaded, we should support them. 543 01:17:48.710 --> 01:17:54.290 Presenter Front Camera: But we should also turn that critical caring eye towards our own people. 544 01:17:55.350 --> 01:18:05.539 Presenter Front Camera: So, having said that, let me tell you about my farm, but I have to say, cause like I have to say it because I can. My name is Mal. I can't be who I am. 545 01:18:05.870 --> 01:18:11.910 Presenter Front Camera: and sit in this room and not talk about like this. The the basic fact 546 01:18:12.200 --> 01:18:19.150 Presenter Front Camera: of the the system was created on purpose. So maybe the founders didn't like see this. 547 01:18:19.980 --> 01:18:24.810 Presenter Front Camera: but some people did it, and they had been calling this out for the whole time we've been here 548 01:18:25.870 --> 01:18:26.980 Presenter Front Camera: together. 549 01:18:27.390 --> 01:18:29.229 Presenter Front Camera: and none of these issues are new. 550 01:18:29.670 --> 01:18:30.610 Presenter Front Camera: none of it. 551 01:18:31.470 --> 01:18:42.299 Presenter Front Camera: And so, you know, we can make a choice to like. Do things like support small farms to increase our the the local access to 552 01:18:42.350 --> 01:19:00.119 Presenter Front Camera: gardening, and like relax some of the laws around what is common space, and give back Some of this common space, like the city of Portland, operates all these guidance golf courses. We don't need 8 golf courses, or many. Specifically, I don't we don't need them. 553 01:19:00.130 --> 01:19:07.360 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like we don't need them, and I go off. 554 01:19:07.370 --> 01:19:23.689 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like we could do more to support people and grow a better local food web, so that we're less dependent on disaster efforts. We should be teaching. The other people had a farm and garden in schools, you know, we should have more access 555 01:19:23.700 --> 01:19:29.979 Presenter Front Camera: to things that make us healthy like I'm lactose intolerant. I don't care about this. I can't. I can't digest it anyways. 556 01:19:31.660 --> 01:19:35.780 Presenter Front Camera: You know, and I don't want to take up a whole lot more time like that's Basically, what I have to say, like. 557 01:19:36.150 --> 01:19:40.679 Presenter Front Camera: you know, if you teach more people to grow their own food 558 01:19:41.180 --> 01:19:45.350 Presenter Front Camera: and support them. In that the grocery store becomes less important. 559 01:19:47.450 --> 01:19:51.860 Presenter Front Camera: We shouldn't be throwing our money away on the garbage that's in there, anyway. 560 01:19:54.340 --> 01:20:00.240 Presenter Front Camera: and I know for me. I didn't broke for me. You know my I come from a family of farmers. It's ironic 561 01:20:00.420 --> 01:20:10.209 Presenter Front Camera: because I was the first person to my family, not born on a farm on my mom's side, like both of my parents, actually born at home at their family farms. 562 01:20:10.370 --> 01:20:13.690 and I was born at Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City. 563 01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:16.969 Presenter Front Camera: and it took me 47 years 564 01:20:17.080 --> 01:20:20.640 Presenter Front Camera: to get back to farming. And it's the best thing I've ever done 565 01:20:20.780 --> 01:20:25.820 Presenter Front Camera: from myself or my community. And like as a lifelong activist. 566 01:20:25.970 --> 01:20:34.170 Presenter Front Camera: growing food and giving that food to the people, we give away 90% of what we grow is the most meaningful, impactful thing I've ever done with my life. 567 01:20:44.680 --> 01:20:49.010 Presenter Front Camera: Why, hastily. 568 01:20:49.140 --> 01:20:57.149 Presenter Front Camera: Hello! Good morning! Still morning. My name is Michelle and I'm Aero Lakes. My way of Chicago Confederate tribes. 569 01:20:57.350 --> 01:21:07.710 I own an operate which translates to Glittering Farm here and Russian and in Clark County we started in Clark County. We serve many customers in Clark County. 570 01:21:07.960 --> 01:21:11.310 so I really enjoyed seeing that 571 01:21:11.390 --> 01:21:15.180 Presenter Front Camera: a crossing of the river to come together it's. A 572 01:21:15.400 --> 01:21:19.920 Presenter Front Camera: Clark county is truly part of the for the Metro, and it often gets kind of left out 573 01:21:20.200 --> 01:21:29.030 Presenter Front Camera: and operating. A farm business across to state lines has been a really fun experience. 574 01:21:29.770 --> 01:21:41.159 Presenter Front Camera: It can be really difficult sometimes, but I think it's really important. We have native America. Portland is the one of the fifth largest native American populations on the West coast. 575 01:21:41.360 --> 01:21:56.439 Presenter Front Camera: and we focus on growing indigenous for foods on our farm, and at the very least exposing that about 80% of our foods that we eat as common in our diet here as Americans are indigenous to the Americas. 576 01:21:56.780 --> 01:22:06.100 Presenter Front Camera: and we try to share those stories up with those stories and kind of pull that out aside and expose that to our customers into our community. 577 01:22:07.920 --> 01:22:14.749 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, it's really heartbreaking to rent stolen land that was stolen from my ancestors. 578 01:22:14.920 --> 01:22:20.139 Presenter Front Camera: and we have been in a state of emergency since contact. 579 01:22:20.470 --> 01:22:28.880 Presenter Front Camera: and that Hasn't ever gone away. As we mentioned earlier, Native Americans are like highly disproportionately effective 580 01:22:29.110 --> 01:22:32.909 Presenter Front Camera: in housing and food access, and that, continues. 581 01:22:33.060 --> 01:22:39.819 Presenter Front Camera: One of the reasons I started. The farm was that I am the generation in my family where 582 01:22:40.210 --> 01:22:43.620 Presenter Front Camera: they gave me and killed the Indian and saved the man. 583 01:22:44.230 --> 01:22:50.529 Presenter Front Camera: So I am not a member of my tribe for various government reasons, and I am 584 01:22:51.390 --> 01:22:55.670 Presenter Front Camera: far removed from my culture for a lot of government reasons. 585 01:22:55.890 --> 01:22:57.420 and 586 01:22:57.780 --> 01:23:06.580 Presenter Front Camera: starting the farm and growing the farm has brought me closer to the community, has brought us in within my family some generational healing. 587 01:23:06.890 --> 01:23:10.849 Presenter Front Camera: We are able to kind of uplift ourselves in 588 01:23:11.010 --> 01:23:18.419 Presenter Front Camera: 22, the Senate up in Canada so here in the States we're a teeny tiny tribe in Calville. 589 01:23:18.450 --> 01:23:23.919 Presenter Front Camera: which is North Central Washington, and in Canada we were considered an extinct tribe. 590 01:23:24.570 --> 01:23:28.910 Presenter Front Camera: and so that was until 2,020, so we're not extinct now. 591 01:23:31.020 --> 01:23:40.360 Presenter Front Camera: and and that's not uncommon native experience in America. I know many tribes who come in and out of Federal recognition in an out of extension 592 01:23:41.260 --> 01:23:44.170 Presenter Front Camera: in that effort to remove us from our lands. 593 01:23:44.620 --> 01:23:56.270 Presenter Front Camera: And so the farm kind of exists to bring disability and to voice, and to kind of elevate our existence here in our continued contemporary modern existence. 594 01:23:58.350 --> 01:24:18.130 Presenter Front Camera: and we've been able. Those are some of the most amazing Csa member comments I get are from other natives who are just really stoked, to be able to support another native, to explore some of our foods, to just know that we're out here doing our best to expose and to communicate our existence. And 595 01:24:18.150 --> 01:24:20.740 Presenter Front Camera: I really love that about my work. 596 01:24:20.870 --> 01:24:26.559 Presenter Front Camera: It's brought me closer to my community, and it really brings my community closer to themselves. 597 01:24:27.220 --> 01:24:31.010 Presenter Front Camera: and that is just so important for a lost identity. 598 01:24:31.660 --> 01:24:49.599 Presenter Front Camera: We do that. A variety of ways. I snap came out, and that is one of our biggest struggles as a farm as a direct to Consumer Farm. It's accepting snap. I cannot do it directly. I must go through third party systems, and those are clunky and inaccessible, especially the home found people 599 01:24:49.610 --> 01:24:54.910 Presenter Front Camera: people with disabilities who do not feel safe going to certain locations. 600 01:24:55.040 --> 01:25:01.439 Presenter Front Camera: and that is so frustrating for me. We also do citing scale payment plans. 601 01:25:01.500 --> 01:25:10.140 Presenter Front Camera: So we have cement plans for cash flow reasons, but we have siding scale pricing as well, and that has been one of the most beautiful things in our community 602 01:25:10.190 --> 01:25:12.979 Presenter Front Camera: is that for the past 2 years 603 01:25:13.860 --> 01:25:23.459 Presenter Front Camera: almost the exact number we pay above market rate cover the cost of those who pay below market rate, and seeing that mutually in action 604 01:25:23.570 --> 01:25:30.770 Presenter Front Camera: through daily, everyday purchasing of food is really amazing to see our community come out and practice that. 605 01:25:30.990 --> 01:25:35.870 Presenter Front Camera: So when we talk when Jason talked about like 606 01:25:36.070 --> 01:25:49.749 Presenter Front Camera: showing other businesses, how it exist like that is one of the ways we can do that, continue to put dignity and value our farm workers, while also practicing real time, solidarity economies. 607 01:25:49.970 --> 01:25:53.190 Presenter Front Camera: And that's what we try to practice on our part. 608 01:25:54.170 --> 01:25:55.459 Presenter Front Camera: And 609 01:25:55.970 --> 01:25:57.620 Presenter Front Camera: yeah, I just 610 01:25:57.800 --> 01:26:03.380 Presenter Front Camera: really kind of interested in this conversation. I think it's so important to talk about the food system. 611 01:26:03.660 --> 01:26:12.009 Presenter Front Camera: It is a very real part of our existence as humans. We don't get to create an update 612 01:26:12.310 --> 01:26:15.320 Presenter Front Camera: that create inventions with our 613 01:26:15.430 --> 01:26:28.350 Presenter Front Camera: sustaining ourselves. First, we need that good helping brain that is not traumatized to be able to focus on the next moves and the next activities. And so. 614 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:31.139 Presenter Front Camera: yeah, thank you. 615 01:26:38.830 --> 01:26:46.240 Presenter Front Camera: Thank you. Everyone for those introductions. You're sharing the work that you're doing and work that you continue to do. 616 01:26:47.410 --> 01:26:48.719 Presenter Front Camera: gonna 617 01:26:48.760 --> 01:27:06.310 Presenter Front Camera: Try to bring this into a a conversation and bring the the crowd out here who's here in person and those of you online as well. And to just have some conversation around these topics that were brought up. I think we've heard multiple different perspectives from multiple different levels of our current 618 01:27:06.550 --> 01:27:16.419 Presenter Front Camera: network and our current system. Obviously, there are a lot of complexities. There are a lot of 619 01:27:16.500 --> 01:27:23.910 Presenter Front Camera: things to work on, and it's it's sometimes overwhelming, because there's so much it's before we start. 620 01:27:23.980 --> 01:27:36.110 Presenter Front Camera: I think the one of the intense and the aims for our event today is really exploring this nexus of you know those of you who are working very much in the 621 01:27:36.120 --> 01:27:58.419 Presenter Front Camera: you know, moving security from just this world and those of us who are sort of squarely in this emergency management versus first World. There is an intersection there. There is a lot of collaborative opportunity and sort of exploring more of what that looks like in in emergency management. There's very much understanding, especially in a very big event, you know. It's going to take time for outside help to, if it even does. 622 01:27:58.430 --> 01:28:06.759 Presenter Front Camera: I think it was mentioned here. And so it's Really, how do we empower our communities, how we we leverage the communities that I've already built, that 623 01:28:07.460 --> 01:28:15.890 Presenter Front Camera: communities keeps on community, but happily have already built this system already know each other are already there. How do we raise them up to be able to 624 01:28:16.740 --> 01:28:18.570 Presenter Front Camera: continue to do that 625 01:28:18.700 --> 01:28:19.590 Presenter Front Camera: and 626 01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:34.849 Presenter Front Camera: support their fellow, develop people? So I have a question here. I want to post it, I think, down at the end to Michelle. But in terms of like again, you're the front line. Workers are working in the community you were in there doing it. How? In what it? 627 01:28:35.710 --> 01:28:40.099 Presenter Front Camera: How would you envision? Where you then sit in terms of. 628 01:28:40.200 --> 01:28:51.380 Presenter Front Camera: and you know, in a in terms of sexual preparedness like, how do you think, or how would you like to see the work that you're doing the community that you have? 629 01:28:52.950 --> 01:28:57.569 Presenter Front Camera: How would you like to see us integrate into that in a way that 630 01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:03.299 Presenter Front Camera: would be sustainable, and would be able to to more appropriately respond and be prepared for 631 01:29:03.480 --> 01:29:04.780 Presenter Front Camera: something that I have. 632 01:29:04.950 --> 01:29:05.800 Presenter Front Camera: And 633 01:29:06.120 --> 01:29:13.309 Presenter Front Camera: yeah, that's a big question, and maybe not an easy answer. But where is the starting point? I guess 634 01:29:15.030 --> 01:29:24.590 Presenter Front Camera: I think for me, I've been involved with various national groups and farmers, and there is a conversation around farming as a public service. 635 01:29:25.240 --> 01:29:34.230 Presenter Front Camera: I had a I worked for a farmer for a while, who, as Covid hit, was like it, sort of have a recession pro 636 01:29:34.670 --> 01:29:39.100 Presenter Front Camera: farm, but I don't know if they could weather this. I was like 637 01:29:39.580 --> 01:29:52.380 Presenter Front Camera: people are kind of magically stop eating like we're farming, no matter what we're growing food, no matter what we're out here. If someone's got to do it. 638 01:29:52.950 --> 01:30:02.729 Presenter Front Camera: and it's a physical and spiritual and mentally taxing activity as a farm that does direct to consumer sales. I'm. Expected to do everything. 639 01:30:03.320 --> 01:30:05.179 Presenter Front Camera: and 640 01:30:05.670 --> 01:30:13.569 Presenter Front Camera: and I think it would take a lot of pressure off if I weren't expected to make a profitable business out of this. 641 01:30:13.880 --> 01:30:21.750 Presenter Front Camera: If I was supported in health, care, and retirement and livable waiting right like that would be super helpful. 642 01:30:21.890 --> 01:30:35.050 Presenter Front Camera: and it would free me up to be less stressed and focus mental energy towards by survival, and again innovate and create and support my community better 643 01:30:35.450 --> 01:30:38.460 Presenter Front Camera: and more fully present 644 01:30:38.580 --> 01:30:42.650 Presenter Front Camera: in that. So that's kind of my feelings around that 645 01:30:42.740 --> 01:30:45.319 Presenter Front Camera: i'm on the show. I mean. 646 01:30:45.470 --> 01:30:48.269 Presenter Front Camera: I think that's a perfect response. 647 01:30:48.840 --> 01:30:51.990 Presenter Front Camera: So I took a second job with Parks, because 648 01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:55.730 Presenter Front Camera: we only have a certain amount of money that we make at the farm. 649 01:30:55.890 --> 01:31:02.050 Presenter Front Camera: and I have a higher skill set, and it didn't make sense for me to hog all that money 650 01:31:02.130 --> 01:31:15.779 Presenter Front Camera: when other people could use that money, and then I could go. Take this job work on like administration and fundraising, and like evangelizing. And then the money that we use to pay my salary. I donate, I think, like 80% of that back into their arm. 651 01:31:16.010 --> 01:31:20.759 Presenter Front Camera: So farming is not profitable like you, don't make a lot of money for them Period dot 652 01:31:22.480 --> 01:31:31.679 Presenter Front Camera: all farmers. I don't have second gigs or one person farms any other person works, I mean, we both work. We're heading into our season. 653 01:31:31.770 --> 01:31:37.719 Presenter Front Camera: and i'm looking at starting my days again at 4, 30 at 50'clock, and ending at 8, so that we have enough. 654 01:31:37.860 --> 01:31:39.989 Presenter Front Camera: I can go do my regular job 655 01:31:40.070 --> 01:31:44.249 Presenter Front Camera: that pays me a great six-figure salary to be honest. 656 01:31:44.610 --> 01:31:46.260 Presenter Front Camera: But we know we need the labor 657 01:31:46.850 --> 01:31:48.250 Presenter Front Camera: and 658 01:31:48.430 --> 01:31:50.430 Presenter Front Camera: it's my healing. I'm in recovery. 659 01:31:50.490 --> 01:31:54.050 Presenter Front Camera: and so I know that if i'm not on the land. 660 01:31:54.180 --> 01:31:59.109 Presenter Front Camera: then i'm distant from the thing that keeps me healthy. 661 01:31:59.870 --> 01:32:04.239 Presenter Front Camera: and that's ancillary. But I really believe that like it's important. And 662 01:32:04.660 --> 01:32:08.890 Presenter Front Camera: because we entered into this capitalist model where everybody's worried about profit. 663 01:32:09.020 --> 01:32:12.010 Presenter Front Camera: and how much money can I squeeze? That is, be. 664 01:32:12.120 --> 01:32:13.570 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like 665 01:32:15.140 --> 01:32:16.769 Presenter Front Camera: it's a faulty model. 666 01:32:17.170 --> 01:32:20.310 Presenter Front Camera: It's a really faulty model. And so we 667 01:32:20.500 --> 01:32:27.519 Presenter Front Camera: and no. But the the honest truth is, we're just going to keep laboring along until everybody goes over the precipice. 668 01:32:27.570 --> 01:32:31.780 Presenter Front Camera: and then it's going to be a real emergency, because people who can't. 669 01:32:32.550 --> 01:32:38.970 Presenter Front Camera: who could afford to like have economic security from this problem. When it's a problem for them. 670 01:32:39.180 --> 01:32:48.009 Presenter Front Camera: then it'll be a problem, for I mean it's already a problem for us right. It's been a problem for us. But when it's a problem for the rest of the all, that's what some will be done. 671 01:32:49.260 --> 01:32:53.139 Presenter Front Camera: And so i'm just saying it's bad. 672 01:32:53.340 --> 01:33:00.269 Presenter Front Camera: and we could do a lot right now with our government, like I feel like our public officials are pretty accessible here in Oregon. 673 01:33:00.310 --> 01:33:02.359 Presenter Front Camera: you know. Everybody knows where they live. 674 01:33:05.670 --> 01:33:06.490 Presenter Front Camera: Oh. 675 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:10.240 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like the white supremacists show up to people's houses. 676 01:33:10.270 --> 01:33:12.060 Presenter Front Camera: you know. We just write letters. 677 01:33:12.730 --> 01:33:16.389 Presenter Front Camera: Can you do this, please? No. Oh, okay. 678 01:33:19.490 --> 01:33:20.770 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like. 679 01:33:21.610 --> 01:33:23.449 Presenter Front Camera: I don't really know what it's going to take. 680 01:33:23.520 --> 01:33:35.229 Presenter Front Camera: but like taking profit out making profit like forcing us to be worried about money all the time. That's not having good health, care, and farming is dangerous. We farm everything by hand. 681 01:33:35.280 --> 01:33:40.669 Presenter Front Camera: but I had a couple of machines, and even some tools on the farm, or if you use it wrong, it's a rat. 682 01:33:40.960 --> 01:33:44.610 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like if you fall, why are you using the Bcs? 683 01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:52.670 Presenter Front Camera: You can mangle yourself. You know what! What's this idiot that just fell into a snow file the other day, Jeremy Ranner, like 684 01:33:52.790 --> 01:33:58.199 Presenter Front Camera: I feel bad for him because I like watching my movies. But and i'm a human being. 685 01:33:58.300 --> 01:34:01.730 Presenter Front Camera: but it says a lot about like the nature of the work, right like 686 01:34:02.790 --> 01:34:05.700 Presenter Front Camera: it says a lot about the this is dangerous work. 687 01:34:06.100 --> 01:34:08.449 Presenter Front Camera: It's taxing on our bodies. 688 01:34:08.480 --> 01:34:11.349 Presenter Front Camera: you know. I hurt my back like 4 times last year. 689 01:34:14.070 --> 01:34:15.969 Presenter Front Camera: It's really hard work. 690 01:34:16.270 --> 01:34:25.259 Presenter Front Camera: and you can't automate it. Some of it can be automated. But this is the thing that requires human hands, and most of the hands who do it. 691 01:34:25.560 --> 01:34:29.549 Presenter Front Camera: Our brown hands and people don't care about us 692 01:34:30.330 --> 01:34:32.119 Presenter Front Camera: in a real sense. 693 01:34:32.190 --> 01:34:33.929 Presenter Front Camera: like in the abstract. 694 01:34:34.250 --> 01:34:36.469 Presenter Front Camera: But farm workers don't have good health care. 695 01:34:36.510 --> 01:34:40.879 Presenter Front Camera: Farm workers will have retirement plans, farm workers don't have profit sharing. 696 01:34:41.330 --> 01:34:42.619 Presenter Front Camera: For the most part. 697 01:34:43.220 --> 01:34:46.410 Presenter Front Camera: you know, farm workers don't get like real vacations. 698 01:34:46.430 --> 01:34:48.710 Presenter Front Camera: and as a matter of fact, we import them. 699 01:34:48.830 --> 01:34:51.070 Presenter Front Camera: and then, as soon as they get finished working 700 01:34:51.840 --> 01:34:55.179 Presenter Front Camera: we put ice on it in and scare him out of the country. 701 01:34:55.940 --> 01:35:04.039 Presenter Front Camera: you know, like we exploit them. America could not work without immigrant leaders. America doesn't work without me. 702 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:09.640 Presenter Front Camera: and why we made Mexicans. The boogie man is white supremacy. 703 01:35:12.280 --> 01:35:18.209 Presenter Front Camera: So I mean we there's there's bigger questions. And there's the micro questions. But really I feel like 704 01:35:18.610 --> 01:35:20.019 Presenter Front Camera: the answer. 705 01:35:20.180 --> 01:35:29.379 Presenter Front Camera: The real answer is to do away with white supremacy and capitalist exploitation of the labor of the laboring that it's like, but we are. We're not 706 01:35:29.720 --> 01:35:32.760 Presenter Front Camera: like. Let's just be real. We're not 707 01:35:32.800 --> 01:35:35.869 Presenter Front Camera: like we're hooked on those things. America is addicted to it so. 708 01:35:35.960 --> 01:35:39.080 Presenter Front Camera: But i'm gonna say it anyway. 709 01:35:42.280 --> 01:35:54.879 Presenter Front Camera: Thank you. I so I will also say, I guess in response to that, and maybe either son or I can, just from the other perspective, like understanding that you know those who are on the front lines. They're they're 710 01:35:54.890 --> 01:36:04.880 Presenter Front Camera: doing a lot of the work. They're they're tired, they don't necessarily capacity. They don't have the resource necessarily like. Why do you see our potential opportunities 711 01:36:05.530 --> 01:36:06.530 Presenter Front Camera: to 712 01:36:07.810 --> 01:36:18.879 Presenter Front Camera: listen and cure these conversations, but then also to support them without. So I feel like it's one of those things where a lot of times we have, we oftentimes go to communities and ask them like, please engage. But let's talk to this. We 713 01:36:19.010 --> 01:36:35.520 Presenter Front Camera: question to spend your time, you know. Tell us how to help you. But but really, what are opportunities to support them without asking them to like, spend this additional time when they're already busy doing the work that they're doing in committee. 714 01:36:35.530 --> 01:36:54.229 Presenter Front Camera: I think we came up earlier about. You know we did engage communities organizations like paying them. We're asking you to come and help us eat into our plans, feed into our research meetings. What we're exploring here, and what we're trying to do like are from really compensate them like their their time and their experience and their 715 01:36:54.240 --> 01:36:59.920 Presenter Front Camera: like. How, what an opportunity that we can do that more this perspective in this stance 716 01:37:00.080 --> 01:37:02.129 to make it a more 717 01:37:02.160 --> 01:37:07.799 Presenter Front Camera: collaborative feeling environment that's not so much like you tell us stuff, and then maybe it 718 01:37:08.240 --> 01:37:15.870 Presenter Front Camera: like, what what is it that we can do to foster this really positive environment where both sides can come to the table equally. 719 01:37:17.250 --> 01:37:20.420 Presenter Front Camera: and we move the conversation forward with the needle board. 720 01:37:21.050 --> 01:37:27.780 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, I I would say, I don't know, and that's a it's a really good question in the sense that 721 01:37:28.090 --> 01:37:29.639 Presenter Front Camera: I wish I had. 722 01:37:29.770 --> 01:37:31.030 Presenter Front Camera: You know some. 723 01:37:31.850 --> 01:37:34.509 Presenter Front Camera: I don't know how it like light bulb 724 01:37:34.540 --> 01:37:37.000 Presenter Front Camera: hallelujah moment where I could say. 725 01:37:37.430 --> 01:37:39.510 Presenter Front Camera: you know this is the answer. 726 01:37:39.640 --> 01:37:45.069 Presenter Front Camera: But I will say that this is one of the answers. Just this. 727 01:37:45.430 --> 01:37:47.760 Presenter Front Camera: and listening to you 728 01:37:48.210 --> 01:37:50.030 Presenter Front Camera: because I have not heard 729 01:37:50.270 --> 01:37:56.929 Presenter Front Camera: the story is in this way, and it's really powerful to me that power matters. And 730 01:37:57.960 --> 01:38:05.819 Presenter Front Camera: when I hear what's being said, I can go back and say that other folks, and that amplification matters. 731 01:38:06.040 --> 01:38:07.630 Presenter Front Camera: It really does. 732 01:38:07.850 --> 01:38:13.250 Presenter Front Camera: I agree with you. I don't. I mean, I agree with you. I I don't know 733 01:38:13.380 --> 01:38:17.729 Presenter Front Camera: when we talk about capitalism and the the process, and 734 01:38:18.390 --> 01:38:37.140 Presenter Front Camera: you know there was a time when I was a younger version of me and astronomy. I know i'm going somewhere with this when in a star trek, and where I thought, Wow! You know this is great. This this makes perfect sense. But then here to there is. 735 01:38:37.760 --> 01:38:39.170 Presenter Front Camera: i'm not sure. 736 01:38:39.180 --> 01:38:58.939 Presenter Front Camera: But that's one reason. I think, that this is so important, and I don't know, have been done. I'm sure. And Portland's one of those places that has a lot of challenges, but it also has a lot of voice which I love about this part of the country, and I I feel like that matters. The voice matters, the conversation, matters and 737 01:38:59.190 --> 01:39:06.160 Presenter Front Camera: solutions by smarter people than me. But I will speak of this, which also matters. 738 01:39:06.800 --> 01:39:08.540 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah. 739 01:39:08.660 --> 01:39:09.530 Presenter Front Camera: I think 740 01:39:09.580 --> 01:39:21.290 Presenter Front Camera: these events are are fantastic, and I've been involved in a lot of conversations in this metropolitan region for economic development as well as this. 741 01:39:22.080 --> 01:39:25.539 Presenter Front Camera: Again, like I said, we work nationally. We work internationally 742 01:39:26.530 --> 01:39:28.679 Presenter Front Camera: generally that we know, like. 743 01:39:28.930 --> 01:39:30.570 Presenter Front Camera: If you 744 01:39:30.910 --> 01:39:42.509 Presenter Front Camera: bring me into some city, we can find your organization. We can find the farms, so it's not so much about paying people to listen to them. It's literally saying. 745 01:39:42.700 --> 01:39:43.719 Presenter Front Camera: All right. 746 01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:48.809 Presenter Front Camera: he the mask did this fantastic job during Covid. What do you mean 747 01:39:49.090 --> 01:39:51.139 Presenter Front Camera: to get ramped up 748 01:39:51.200 --> 01:39:54.159 Presenter Front Camera: just a quick? What do you mean? What does that look like? 749 01:39:54.690 --> 01:39:57.329 Presenter Front Camera: Can you do it? You might say 750 01:39:57.880 --> 01:39:59.229 Presenter Front Camera: I could do 751 01:39:59.390 --> 01:40:02.040 Presenter Front Camera: this bit of it. I can't do this. 752 01:40:02.240 --> 01:40:08.589 Presenter Front Camera: Okay. So we identified this on your farms. Fantastic. What can you do? 753 01:40:08.960 --> 01:40:14.440 Presenter Front Camera: And what can you do within what's humanly possible, what you just spoke about with farming. 754 01:40:14.750 --> 01:40:29.270 Presenter Front Camera: Right? I I have our background, and you know one of the reasons I got a Phd. Is because, being a dairy farmer in the Midwest has to be like a certain wrong of hell. Right? That that's not farming so 755 01:40:29.920 --> 01:40:30.950 Presenter Front Camera: right? 756 01:40:31.460 --> 01:40:32.510 Presenter Front Camera: What? 757 01:40:33.150 --> 01:40:36.879 Presenter Front Camera: And this and this goes for organizations like, feed the mass to 758 01:40:37.040 --> 01:40:47.820 Presenter Front Camera: what? What can you do? So it's. Stop with requiring heroic efforts, and think about the support needed to do the work 759 01:40:48.190 --> 01:40:54.600 Presenter Front Camera: right, so that you know you probably need more staff and more resources, etc. I think that's it. We we don't. 760 01:40:55.550 --> 01:41:11.769 Presenter Front Camera: and we know that we know that information. It's a matter of translating it into the plans. And that's speaking right about more of those practical that would be my approach. Can I just say one more thing because I feel like I've been like super high up here on my 761 01:41:11.860 --> 01:41:29.579 Presenter Front Camera: black do worse. Yeah, I mean it's the truth, though, so I I you know I feel like I I needed to say the other thing is like we are a climate resilient farm. We just got a piece that brand hopefully, the city will finally come up off this bread. 762 01:41:31.900 --> 01:41:41.249 Presenter Front Camera: So we're trying to be. We're we're really trying to be a clean energy Farm, I think dependence on fossil fuel is like literally a dead of road. And so it more people 763 01:41:42.490 --> 01:41:54.710 Presenter Front Camera: we're encouraged to and subsidize to do solar instead of just rich people who could use Tesla solar roofs, and people could have like brainwater reclamation, and 764 01:41:55.600 --> 01:42:15.520 Presenter Front Camera: our all of our operations would be more sustain, you know, and it's important for disaster. Resilience, right? That's the place where you can. When the Puerto Rican brid went down. I was like, Why doesn't why don't the people on the island who have all this sunlight? Right? Why, don't they have access to solar like? Why are they still relying on? 765 01:42:15.530 --> 01:42:28.549 Presenter Front Camera: You know some micro grid. So there's things like that that I think, are like approachable that are less, maybe less weighty and more marketable than like destroying white supremacy. 766 01:42:28.760 --> 01:42:31.499 Presenter Front Camera: which the other thing I was gonna say is like 767 01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:33.840 Presenter Front Camera: the narrative has been the same 768 01:42:33.930 --> 01:42:34.630 Presenter Front Camera: like. 769 01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:49.300 Presenter Front Camera: I promise you, my great-grandfather, who is a farmer in in North Carolina in Guestonia. Well, everybody was a farmer, my family but my great-grandfather, Ike, who asked you some time about how he killed these p members? 770 01:42:49.460 --> 01:42:51.890 You know when the great depression hit 771 01:42:52.120 --> 01:42:59.980 Presenter Front Camera: I was like, Well, I got food. You know the people in town don't have food, and i'm totally self-sufficient. This money is not the problem for me. 772 01:43:00.220 --> 01:43:13.990 Presenter Front Camera: because he was a bootlegger, too. He, you know. They got all the kids and every harvest. They just went and supplied every church, black, white, or whatever with food, and they did that until the fields were empty. 773 01:43:14.150 --> 01:43:23.330 Presenter Front Camera: you know, and they encourage other farmers like, Look, we are eating. We're gonna be okay, right, like we as long as we eat everybody should eat. 774 01:43:23.660 --> 01:43:26.809 Presenter Front Camera: And so I really believe that like 775 01:43:28.630 --> 01:43:46.179 Presenter Front Camera: doing things like employing solar. But then also, like Jacobson, is doing like modeling kindness, like we're a black farm in a white neighborhood. We feed everybody. If you come to my farm, you don't leave without produce. Right? That's just a fact. 776 01:43:46.280 --> 01:43:55.950 Presenter Front Camera: It's civil notes because we share it with Civil Joe Mill has been out to our farm. If you come to visit black features like we're gonna make sure that you leave with what we grow 777 01:43:56.150 --> 01:43:58.810 Presenter Front Camera: because it's important to us that we model that. 778 01:43:58.870 --> 01:44:00.019 Presenter Front Camera: And I think. 779 01:44:00.110 --> 01:44:12.089 Presenter Front Camera: moving more of us into that common generosity model like it is my obligation as a living person, as a person of faith, that I take care of my neighbors like 780 01:44:12.180 --> 01:44:13.799 Presenter Front Camera: It's a must. 781 01:44:13.870 --> 01:44:15.369 Presenter Front Camera: it's not optional. 782 01:44:15.540 --> 01:44:24.809 Presenter Front Camera: And if your house is on fire, then how long do the fire gets to my house? It's much better if we protect all of us, so that none of us burn up right 783 01:44:24.940 --> 01:44:25.740 Presenter Front Camera: like 784 01:44:26.540 --> 01:44:28.090 Presenter Front Camera: There's a way 785 01:44:28.590 --> 01:44:31.490 Presenter Front Camera: that we have learned to be in this country 786 01:44:31.650 --> 01:44:34.870 Presenter Front Camera: that is based on selfishness and individualism. 787 01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:41.519 Presenter Front Camera: that it's eating us from the inside, and some of us have already been consumed and expelled. 788 01:44:41.590 --> 01:44:43.529 Presenter Front Camera: But if the rest of you 789 01:44:44.550 --> 01:44:47.239 Presenter Front Camera: don't want to end up like us. 790 01:44:48.910 --> 01:44:52.800 Presenter Front Camera: and we're, you know, doing our thing, and we're going to be okay, I believe. 791 01:44:53.210 --> 01:45:00.429 Presenter Front Camera: And there are some things that we have to change in our system systematically and fundamentally, programmatically and philosophically. 792 01:45:04.430 --> 01:45:07.979 Presenter Front Camera: that could, like, you know, maybe divert the course the river a little bit. 793 01:45:12.120 --> 01:45:23.059 Presenter Front Camera: I think the one thing that you guys are also talking about, and I think that's really not really talked about is the idea that no one is encouraging people to take in place. 794 01:45:23.580 --> 01:45:35.809 Presenter Front Camera: Our schools, aren't educating people about farming schools. Aren't teach you about working in a nonprofit managing and a nonprofit or a community program. So it's I 795 01:45:36.020 --> 01:45:41.600 Presenter Front Camera: I I feel, you guys, it's it's also a situation of like what were to happen if if Mountain goes down 796 01:45:41.670 --> 01:45:43.139 Presenter Front Camera: Michelle goes down 797 01:45:43.350 --> 01:45:58.090 Presenter Front Camera: is at the end of of your entire business. What happens well with I don't know. So I, to make sure that everybody around us is getting taken care of. So education is probably going to be one of the solutions that we should be thought about. 798 01:45:58.480 --> 01:46:01.240 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, that's inherent in our model 799 01:46:01.470 --> 01:46:12.059 Presenter Front Camera: in our model is our model is built on passing it on and educating people so like, yeah, that's why I call black features. 800 01:46:13.580 --> 01:46:25.300 Presenter Front Camera: I'm: just curious. All of you guys, you know what you guys are saying. What do you think the barriers are? Because for me personally, I think, in order for this to change to happen. It needs to start at the top. 801 01:46:25.310 --> 01:46:34.950 Presenter Front Camera: They need to realize what is going on at the top. So what you guys are doing is fantastic. How do we get people up here? They know to see it, I know they know, but they need to see. 802 01:46:34.960 --> 01:46:48.780 Presenter Front Camera: I see. So do we take. Do we take their stuff from them so that they can so they can then experience what it's like to be down here, and then maybe that's going to change their perception. You know how. How how do you guys envision that from all call 803 01:46:48.960 --> 01:47:05.710 Presenter Front Camera: you got me on one? Just the right. So now it's, it's, it's this. None of this is an accident, this single accident. This is not like. Oh, what what's going on? 804 01:47:05.720 --> 01:47:13.650 Presenter Front Camera: This is intentional, but the problem is the people with the money rely on that bread to insulate them from these problems. 805 01:47:13.910 --> 01:47:16.270 Presenter Front Camera: This is just a problem for poor middle class People 806 01:47:16.600 --> 01:47:18.420 Presenter Front Camera: which people Don't have these problems. 807 01:47:19.460 --> 01:47:30.620 Presenter Front Camera: you know they can relocate. Elon Musk is trying to take all his people to Mars like. The problem is the priority of the people who have out. 808 01:47:30.900 --> 01:47:35.339 Presenter Front Camera: And so how do you reprioritize them? Is you take them out of office. 809 01:47:35.380 --> 01:47:38.069 Presenter Front Camera: you stop, you stop their flow of money. 810 01:47:38.230 --> 01:47:44.320 Presenter Front Camera: There's no reason a Congressman should be worth billions of dollars. How do you get that money 811 01:47:45.450 --> 01:47:46.610 Presenter Front Camera: like? 812 01:47:47.020 --> 01:47:50.780 Presenter Front Camera: You know, they got screwed up priorities. Their parties are not 813 01:47:53.100 --> 01:48:08.710 Presenter Front Camera: well, and I feel like we mentioned reaching out, asking people what they need help with. I received lots of technical assistance, super full of assistance. What I really need is like an actual bookkeeper. 814 01:48:08.800 --> 01:48:17.840 Presenter Front Camera: What I actually need is a truck driver. What I actually need is someone to the pain. I don't need to learn to do it. 815 01:48:18.350 --> 01:48:24.680 Presenter Front Camera: I don't want to learn to do marketing. I don't want to learn to do the counting. I don't. I have a farmer. I want a farm. 816 01:48:24.950 --> 01:48:34.810 Presenter Front Camera: So there's a lot of technical assistance out there, and it's all geared towards teaching me how to do those things, and that's just too much to ask of one person to do 817 01:48:34.930 --> 01:48:37.109 Presenter Front Camera: so. I hear that. 818 01:48:37.310 --> 01:48:40.810 Presenter Front Camera: And yeah, it's. It's money. It's a money problem. 819 01:48:40.940 --> 01:48:50.890 Presenter Front Camera: So the regional question. My original thought was universal income would be super helpful. And that's back to. Who are we 820 01:48:51.050 --> 01:48:55.629 Presenter Front Camera: engaging with in our government? How are they getting there? Who are they? 821 01:48:55.830 --> 01:48:59.249 Presenter Front Camera: It's kind of to mount this point. 822 01:48:59.360 --> 01:49:00.490 Presenter Front Camera: It works. 823 01:49:00.660 --> 01:49:07.380 Presenter Front Camera: it works fit, Beat the mass. When When 2020 happened, everybody got $1,500 every week. 824 01:49:07.500 --> 01:49:09.919 Presenter Front Camera: People showed up by like 825 01:49:10.030 --> 01:49:13.750 Presenter Front Camera: 30 people came and said, hey, I got. I got paid from the government. 826 01:49:13.790 --> 01:49:22.229 Presenter Front Camera: What can I do? Right? It works and folks want to support local, and by local we're doing it best we can at our farm 827 01:49:22.420 --> 01:49:25.889 Presenter Front Camera: to make that accessible and possible. 828 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:28.409 Presenter Front Camera: But i'll tell you, renewable energy. 829 01:49:28.860 --> 01:49:31.540 Presenter Front Camera: Big barrier to me. I re this land. 830 01:49:31.580 --> 01:49:48.439 Presenter Front Camera: I cannot make investments in the land. The last I remember 60 of all Us. Farmland is rented plan. That is a severe problem in those farmers ability to care about and invest in their soil, and that help to care about and invest in 831 01:49:48.490 --> 01:49:52.649 more ecologically and friendly and 832 01:49:52.760 --> 01:49:56.600 Presenter Front Camera: relative arming practices to invest in renewable by energy. 833 01:49:56.730 --> 01:50:00.550 Presenter Front Camera: I went out ownership without that prolonged access. 834 01:50:00.810 --> 01:50:08.839 Presenter Front Camera: It's really hard to put your energy there when your other end, when, as I mentioned, all my other energies are in a whole bunch of other places. 835 01:50:09.010 --> 01:50:22.670 Presenter Front Camera: so land back is huge, you know, for our communities of color prolonged land. Access is huge and ownership. However, we want to look at it. That's a big piece that needs to get returned. 836 01:50:22.800 --> 01:50:28.440 Presenter Front Camera: We gave land out at 1 point we can give it out again. 837 01:50:28.760 --> 01:50:37.519 Presenter Front Camera: It's not a new or unique thing. It's very American. Actually. So. I really believe that that's possible. 838 01:50:37.980 --> 01:50:43.750 Presenter Front Camera: and it would be extremely helpful for our efforts to what we do as farmers. 839 01:50:44.390 --> 01:50:49.989 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah. So I will say that we are coming close on time 840 01:50:50.110 --> 01:51:02.850 Presenter Front Camera: because we show I know there's like a lot of people joined online and like I'm just curious. If there will be a couple we will be able to answer any of them, but just work here to see if we can see 841 01:51:03.170 --> 01:51:08.680 Presenter Front Camera: the kinds of questions that folks online or the kind of commons folks are saying. 842 01:51:09.170 --> 01:51:18.059 Presenter Front Camera: Maybe nothing. But I think that's not true, because that is seriously. 843 01:51:18.110 --> 01:51:36.850 Presenter Front Camera: it's just based on the conversation that we've had here alone. We've we left it somewhat open ended, and for the conversation there's there's a lot to unpack here. There are a lot of complexity. There are a lot of different factors that go into this sector and this work, I think one of the things that 844 01:51:36.930 --> 01:51:38.010 Presenter Front Camera: from 845 01:51:38.140 --> 01:51:45.449 Presenter Front Camera: I guess a regional perspective is is very much trying to understand. Also, like where we can affect, change, and where we cannot. 846 01:51:45.460 --> 01:51:58.910 Presenter Front Camera: But then, really trying to bolster up where we think that we have opportunities to move the needle, to have those conversations, to to ask the questions, to put in the work, and to to build the support 847 01:51:58.920 --> 01:52:13.949 Presenter Front Camera: and to give the resources that you know. Those on the front line are saying that they need that the coordination that those in the community are saying that is needed to to build a more resilient region as a whole, I guess. My! I'm. Looking at all the questions 848 01:52:15.070 --> 01:52:34.659 Presenter Front Camera: I I can. So that was how I can engage in the topic. What organizations are creating average tech. That was kind of where I was thinking of, maybe might be a business to land. Is this idea of? You know there are farms that are that are out there working. I'm sure you all maybe have like an informal network where you'll talk and you all chat. We collaborate, and you 849 01:52:34.860 --> 01:52:43.379 Presenter Front Camera: partner up in that way like are there, you know either more formal opportunities. Is, there is better or needed effort that will help 850 01:52:44.280 --> 01:52:51.459 Presenter Front Camera: take the notice of you try and find those connections, just bringing everyone's table to to to be a course multiplier in a sense like you said. 851 01:52:51.560 --> 01:52:55.649 Presenter Front Camera: you don't need to learn how to book you. You need a bookkeeper like. Is there a way to try to 852 01:52:55.670 --> 01:53:01.070 Presenter Front Camera: levels of community that's already built, and and bring everyone together to have its conversations both 853 01:53:01.090 --> 01:53:09.780 Presenter Front Camera: on the can be available on the State level, on the regional level, just in all levels, so that we're not. You know. How do we make the most of the resources that are available, and not 854 01:53:09.870 --> 01:53:12.960 Presenter Front Camera: put any one onus on anyone part of it? 855 01:53:13.210 --> 01:53:23.809 Presenter Front Camera: I'm. Curious if it may be as a parting question for each person on the panel. This closing thoughts in terms of what does this collaborative face maybe look like? What would you like to see 856 01:53:23.890 --> 01:53:28.610 Presenter Front Camera: what has been, and Hasn't done like any closing dots in terms of where we may be 857 01:53:30.620 --> 01:53:35.290 Presenter Front Camera: Start down the line. 858 01:53:37.490 --> 01:53:48.589 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, it's. It's tough in every city, and it's tough nationally, and you know I think it has to be in different layers. I don't think any one thing can encapsulate 859 01:53:48.620 --> 01:53:56.060 Presenter Front Camera: all the different ways. People want to stay engaged. Certainly. We're trying our companies trying to build 860 01:53:56.120 --> 01:54:05.469 Presenter Front Camera: a hub of resources. And so you can check out our website, and we're trying to build a network. I think the universities are great space, and I didn't just want to. 861 01:54:05.780 --> 01:54:15.369 Presenter Front Camera: you know, saying that my my response to that last question was, Research is also key. We always forget about the importance of research and a special type of research. 862 01:54:16.440 --> 01:54:32.280 Presenter Front Camera: I I will say one thing that we're doing at the State level, or that I'm doing is working with Idaho, Washington and Alaska and building a online. It's called the Public Private Partnership platform. P. 4. So you're counting, and 863 01:54:32.390 --> 01:54:50.150 Presenter Front Camera: this is a it's an online team space platform that's free for private sector, for businesses that will be launching that you can have a one stop shop for what's happening in the Pacific Northwest when it relates to disasters, and you have the chat function with me directly. 864 01:54:50.160 --> 01:55:10.309 Presenter Front Camera: You'll be able to see mapping situation updates. You'll see what's happening at the State level when it comes to those disaster responses, and then you can connect with me, but one of the reasons that that's important is that a a quick example post-fire? We hosted a coordination call for every business in Oregon. 865 01:55:10.640 --> 01:55:20.340 Presenter Front Camera: and how many of you knew that even happen, and Don't raise your hands, because probably you know one or or 2 people, and that's because our outreach network was not good enough. 866 01:55:20.440 --> 01:55:46.159 Presenter Front Camera: You know the the alerting folks that that was actually happening, so that you can call in and talk to Fema. Folks talk to state folks here what's happening on the ground in your area. And and we did that for a number of months. And that's another thing that we're working on with P. 4 is that if you log in you could see that that's happening. I'll push that out. Everybody can see it's happening. Another reason that it's a good system is that we anticipate. We may go down. 867 01:55:46.230 --> 01:55:52.700 Presenter Front Camera: They and quotes likely probably more in quotes meaning: we won't have Internet 868 01:55:52.950 --> 01:56:04.040 Presenter Front Camera: access to folks with those States that are next to me can help run that help, listen and help coordinate what's happening between the Federal Government and State response. So it's one thing we're working on 869 01:56:04.930 --> 01:56:06.659 Presenter Front Camera: a couple of things 870 01:56:08.370 --> 01:56:13.050 the Black Food Siren Coalition, which i'm. A co-director is having a conference from 871 01:56:13.100 --> 01:56:16.549 Presenter Front Camera: February seventeenth, to the twentieth and we're going to talk about this stuff. 872 01:56:16.740 --> 01:56:23.810 Presenter Front Camera: It's gonna be to come up. You can email me@blackmalcolmatblackfutures.farm. 873 01:56:23.890 --> 01:56:27.809 Presenter Front Camera: Ml: Clm: at black Futures Farm 874 01:56:27.910 --> 01:56:37.099 Presenter Front Camera: you can. The Conference coordinator's name is Arlow. You can email him are low at black food in W. Or G. 875 01:56:37.230 --> 01:56:41.379 Presenter Front Camera: If you forget all that, and just find us on Instagram. 876 01:56:43.060 --> 01:56:54.089 Presenter Front Camera: and I think, like the most impactful thing to do. That is very practical is that you can start growing your own food, even if you're just growing a tomato plant in your backyard or on your porch, or whatever like 877 01:56:54.250 --> 01:56:56.610 Presenter Front Camera: you can teach your kids how to grow food. 878 01:56:56.740 --> 01:57:04.009 Presenter Front Camera: It is like the most amazing and beautiful science, but it's also pretty. Idi approved it's. 879 01:57:04.190 --> 01:57:06.309 Presenter Front Camera: You know things want to grow. 880 01:57:06.420 --> 01:57:07.950 and it's 881 01:57:08.040 --> 01:57:11.159 Presenter Front Camera: becomes like this beautiful things to facilitate it. 882 01:57:11.220 --> 01:57:21.999 Presenter Front Camera: and the the the less distance you put between you and the things that you consume, the more powerful of an individual, you will come support your local farmers so that we can 883 01:57:22.030 --> 01:57:36.550 Presenter Front Camera: support our local resilient food. Networks, you know, support people like Michelle. A good rain farm support for like futures farm support. You know your local farmers also. You can't really buy our produce like we give it all the way. 884 01:57:36.990 --> 01:57:40.590 Presenter Front Camera: but you can give us your money happy and take it. 885 01:57:40.820 --> 01:57:43.330 Presenter Front Camera: Demo. 886 01:57:43.950 --> 01:57:45.380 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah, I mean it's 887 01:57:46.170 --> 01:57:53.929 Presenter Front Camera: and attackwise privacy and capitalism really like, you know, underneath all that like attack it in ourselves. It's socially. 888 01:57:54.340 --> 01:58:01.599 Presenter Front Camera: and I also suffer from it like I don't not just a victim of it. I'm also a perpetuator of it, because I live here in the system. 889 01:58:01.650 --> 01:58:07.770 Presenter Front Camera: So on. Nobody is separate. Nobody is not culpable. We all share responsibility and destroying it. 890 01:58:09.750 --> 01:58:10.719 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah. 891 01:58:10.980 --> 01:58:11.880 Presenter Front Camera: Yeah. 892 01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:19.340 Presenter Front Camera: yeah. I was gonna say, skill shares, gardening and growing. Your own food is one of those skills you gotta learn. Learn all skills. 893 01:58:21.460 --> 01:58:37.599 Presenter Front Camera: I think that that's really important to kind of be centralized. I remember once, early on as a farmer, someone asked me. You think gardeners home gardening programs or urban farmers are a threat to you. I was like goodness, No, no like 894 01:58:37.890 --> 01:58:42.920 Presenter Front Camera: test disease. Crisis happens everywhere, and 895 01:58:43.060 --> 01:58:47.540 Presenter Front Camera: that, you know we witnessed that a lot this year. And 896 01:58:47.570 --> 01:58:59.709 Presenter Front Camera: oh, well, really, these last 3 years farmers have really banded together. I've had failed crops. I've gone to Black Features Farm. When I have surplus I supported my neighbor farm. 897 01:58:59.720 --> 01:59:12.330 Presenter Front Camera: So we are. You know we're growing a diversity of foods. But certain micro climates and little file regions and spaces have their ups and downs. We're always going to have those struggles. We live in an ecosystem 898 01:59:12.410 --> 01:59:18.400 Presenter Front Camera: all these other plants and animals and beings, and I think that that speaks a little bit to them. The 899 01:59:18.850 --> 01:59:22.250 Presenter Front Camera: the worldview mind shift we need to have 900 01:59:22.440 --> 01:59:42.010 Presenter Front Camera: is recognizing that we are just another species mammal here a month. So a bunch of other little species, ecosystem partners, and relations, and we just exist in that, and not elevate ourselves above any one feature or plant, or like him, or bacteria, and like 901 01:59:42.110 --> 01:59:47.009 Presenter Front Camera: also not elevate them too much either, though they can definitely use more support. 902 01:59:48.440 --> 01:59:50.760 Presenter Front Camera: but really recognizing that like 903 01:59:51.290 --> 01:59:52.150 Presenter Front Camera: and 904 01:59:52.180 --> 01:59:54.690 Presenter Front Camera: and just really breaking down this 905 01:59:54.710 --> 01:59:56.390 Presenter Front Camera: separation we have 906 01:59:56.800 --> 01:59:58.749 Presenter Front Camera: with, like the natural world. 907 01:59:58.920 --> 02:00:04.399 Presenter Front Camera: I think we go a long way to break you down. White supremacy and colonialism and capitalism. 908 02:00:04.730 --> 02:00:10.809 Presenter Front Camera: like those those bands, exist to elevate humans above all else in a particular type of human 909 02:00:10.850 --> 02:00:19.719 Presenter Front Camera: above all else. And I think if we can shift our worldview to really recognize ourselves as just one other picture here. 910 02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:24.019 Presenter Front Camera: and I find that going outside and gardening is a beautiful way 911 02:00:24.060 --> 02:00:29.109 Presenter Front Camera: to create that mind. Shift to engage in it, to witness it, to participate in that 912 02:00:30.650 --> 02:00:41.070 Presenter Front Camera: we, you know, seed saving and canning, jarring, cooking, like there are so many skills we can go out and learn, and I think that that it's a really great place to start. 913 02:00:42.140 --> 02:00:46.729 Presenter Front Camera: But yes, I also sell C. And things. 914 02:00:47.430 --> 02:00:53.080 Presenter Front Camera: I didn't want to say that for those of you that are interested. Every county 915 02:00:53.180 --> 02:01:03.109 Presenter Front Camera: and government. You can go on the Government website, but there is emergency preparation. Those are either net teams in Portland or servings in Barton County. 916 02:01:03.130 --> 02:01:15.980 Presenter Front Camera: It's it's the same from the perspective of we all know there's another disaster, whatever type it may be. First, responders will not be reacting to you for at least 3 days to 7 of it. 917 02:01:16.380 --> 02:01:27.949 Presenter Front Camera: but you gotta have to be self-sufficient. So what does that mean? It means to maybe sponsor this summer a gathering on your patio. Get to know your neighbors, Find out what your skills are. 918 02:01:27.960 --> 02:01:37.029 Presenter Front Camera: Find out who is growing a garden, who has, how they can support you. What you can do to support your neighbors, because in a in a true 919 02:01:37.190 --> 02:01:38.559 Presenter Front Camera: it's after 920 02:01:38.790 --> 02:01:50.850 Presenter Front Camera: that's what it's gonna really take like? Who has that generator down the street. Who has 921 02:01:50.920 --> 02:02:00.389 Presenter Front Camera: that you? So you start local and you start a small, and that's really what happened during the epidemic. If it hadn't been for the frankly the faith-based organizations. 922 02:02:00.430 --> 02:02:05.899 Presenter Front Camera: and the small countries, and the small organizations like I was running at that time 923 02:02:05.970 --> 02:02:09.970 we could have never gone through the bureaucracy of waiting 924 02:02:10.240 --> 02:02:12.500 Presenter Front Camera: for a responsibility. 925 02:02:14.100 --> 02:02:30.219 Presenter Front Camera: And so we're we're way over over time that I think it just shows the the correct and the complexity of the conversations that we're having today. As a. So let me take it. I just want to give everyone, if you can give me an 926 02:02:39.790 --> 02:02:49.570 Presenter Front Camera: i'm going to turn back over to. And also Carol is because moderate a panel of calendar. 927 02:02:53.480 --> 02:02:56.789 Presenter Front Camera: It's your zoom, chat again 928 02:02:58.660 --> 02:03:17.730 Presenter Front Camera: and not be sharing here, using the full polling thing. There's QR. Codes as an attempt to try to kind of integrate online and in person feedback experience. But it it kind of works. You learn things. I saw some people putting things in about a resilient food system. You saw a few of their answers earlier, so that was one way to kind of bring some line voices into the room. 929 02:03:17.800 --> 02:03:35.509 Presenter Front Camera: Some takeaways. Well, there's a lot of them, but one is You'll kind of if you register for the event. I'll send an email with a little to feedback form. I'll probably share some of the Consolidated things people put in that poll, and I think the chat box that things in it, and we'll see if we can 930 02:03:35.520 --> 02:03:45.530 Presenter Front Camera: share those in a way with you. All this has been recorded. Thank you to this personal phone. You recorded this for us, so you'll get a link to the recording to be hosted on the Psc. Library website. So 931 02:03:45.540 --> 02:03:57.639 Presenter Front Camera: lots of follows and a little survey about how you can, you know, do the events better. Eventually that report I talked about will be coming, but i'll go. So you leave with some new connections, some synthesis and clarity about steps, some big idea 932 02:03:57.650 --> 02:04:09.269 Presenter Front Camera: about how to agitate change at lots of different levels. My hope in bringing together kind of front line perspectives and folks working kind of in the traditional emergency planning world is that 933 02:04:09.280 --> 02:04:17.720 Presenter Front Camera: these conversations strengthen, and that the kind of emergency planning we do is different than the kind of kin was describing, and that we do it in a way that 934 02:04:17.730 --> 02:04:34.679 Presenter Front Camera: has a universal income. And when you know, has all the way that all the things mentioned today like. I think that's a feature that's possible. So that's kind of the spirit I want to leave with for those of you coming. Thank you. I also. There's a couple of thank Yous Molly, over there developing the back work 935 02:04:37.860 --> 02:04:41.790 with the 936 02:04:48.220 --> 02:04:58.320 Presenter Front Camera: Thank you for looking for me. The journey here one way or another, are those. But but thank you, and for the panelists and speakers 937 02:04:58.340 --> 02:05:07.180 Presenter Front Camera: I wish we can find well, but there is a small lunch upstairs, but I' to mingle over a line. There's there's fill over space. Mingle and 938 02:05:07.290 --> 02:05:10.889 Presenter Front Camera: I think that's that is my final word. Thank you. 939 02:05:18.510 --> 02:05:20.809 Presenter Front Camera: Are we gonna okay?