It's the sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.

Once a month or so, we're joined by our friend Rob Bettaker, a freelance writer based

in the Bay Area, just to check in on what's going on with him and his life, Rob.

Hey, how are you doing?

Hey, I'm good.

Jesse, good to talk to you again.

So I was really surprised when my producer Julia told me that what you're up to these

days actually dovetails really well with our food theme this week on the show.

Maybe you could sort of let us in.

Totally.

I started a whole farm and a whole farm box system, a community agriculture thing where we

deliver boxes of fresh fruit and veggies to people in the city.

Okay, I know about this kind of thing.

I actually have one.

I pick a box up every week at the Mount Washington Elementary School here in L.A.

It's like we're a group of people get together and everybody pays 20 bucks a month or so.

And the farmers agree to provide fresh fruits and vegetables in a big box every week.

Yeah, so every week I like to send out a letter with the veggies and the produce in

the box just so people kind of know what's going on at the farm.

And maybe I'll share some recipes or tips, stuff like that.

Oh, that sounds great.

I mean, I think even though our audience won't necessarily be getting exactly the same

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