In this season of gathering around the table, we hear from self-proclaimed, proud ag youth,

Anisa Davila from Salinas Valley, California, known as the Salad Bowl of the world.

Davila has led her high school chapter of Future Farmers of America, which has more than a million students participating nationwide.

Tonight, she shares her brief but spectacular take on what she's learned about leadership,

responsibility, and community through farming.

The poem I'm reciting is Lineage by Margaret Walker.

My grandmothers were strong.

They followed plows and bent to toil. My grandmothers are full of memories.

Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands,

they have many clean words to say.

My grandmothers were strong.

Why am I not as they?

My grandmothers were both from Mexico

and they migrated here to America,

and they're very much my role models.

My father and my brother both work in the agriculture industry in the Salinas Valley.

The Salinas Valley is sometimes referred to as the Salad Bowl of the World.

Gonzales is a small little community town.

It's surrounded by fields. We're also kind of split by the freeway,

so sometimes they're also called like a little gas station stop.

Entering my freshman year, I chose to take ag biology instead of regular biology because I was introduced to the FFA program, which is Future Farmers America.

Once your food reaches the table, I mean, it's gone through so many processes in order

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