275) Sophie Ackoff: Decentralizing power in agriculture to support the next generation of farmers
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Sophie Ackoff is the co-executive director of the National Young Farmers Coalition, which is a national advocacy network of young farmers fighting for the future of agriculture.
In this podcast episode, Sophie sheds light on the challenges that young people uniquely face, especially Black, Indigenous, and young people of color, when trying to become farmers and food producers; the distinction between farmworkers and farmers, and how we might go about addressing the injustices of land access in this country; and more.
Featured music: I Need Angels by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
| 0:26.8 | We need your direct support in order to continue this podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | And you can help us out so, so much through a paid substack subscription to my newsletter at |
| 0:37.3 | camaya.substack.com or through a one-time |
| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:54.6 | Green Dreamer is a community supported show backed mostly by listeners like you through our Patreon. |
| 1:01.0 | This episode of Green Dreamer is also supported by the Plant Your Change Movement, |
| 1:05.5 | which plants a tree on your behalf every time you use your own existing debit or credit card, |
| 1:12.4 | simply by rounding up your change for you. Yes, we should keep pressuring the big corporations and governments to do their |
| 1:17.9 | part and be accountable to their contributions to land degradation and deforestation. |
| 1:23.8 | But we are at an all-hand-on-deck moment where every tree consciously planet will count. |
| 1:29.3 | And if our change can be rounded up just a little bit once to three or four times per day for our daily purchases, |
| 1:35.7 | well, let's just say three times 365, we could each contribute to planting up to or more than a thousand trees just in this next year. The program collaborates with two |
| 1:46.3 | established reforestation nonprofits, Arbor Day Foundation and Eden projects, which we've |
| 1:51.8 | donated to before as well. So if you want to join or learn more about plant your change, you can head |
| 1:57.8 | to greendreamer.com slash plant your change. This will be linked in the show notes |
| 2:02.7 | of this episode as well, but again, it's greendreamer.com slash plant your change. The statistic that I |
| 2:10.7 | shared of 95% of farmers are white are farm owners, principal operators. |
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