Cultivating Food Independence And Access To Agriculture With Meag Sargent

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with Meag Sargent, a Chicago-based horticulturist, multimedia artist, farmer, and food sovereignty advocate. Currently, she works with Farm From a Box, an off-grid toolkit for sustainable agriculture with the goal to revolutionize local food production.

Meag has always had a passion for farming and environmental advocacy. Through her work, she channels her love of plant breeding, controlled environment agriculture, and regenerative farming into a truly impactful pursuit…

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Join the conversation now to explore:

What got Meag interested in horticulture.
Why food is such an integral part of the human experience.
How Farm From a Box is cultivating food independence.
The importance of providing education and training for up-and-coming farmers.

Making effective agriculture accessible to those who need it is critical to the well-being of all people. Want to know how people like Meag are contributing to this vision? Tune in now!

You can find out more about Meag Sargent's work with Farm From a Box by clicking here!

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1:21.4	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast.
1:24.4	My guest today is Meg Sargent. She's in sales. The company is called Farm From a Box.
1:30.4	It's an off-grid toolkit for sustainable agriculture.
1:33.4	So we're going to go into what Farm From a Box is about and a bit of Meg's background. Welcome Meg, thank you.
1:38.4	Thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here.
1:41.4	Welcome to me about your background and then what formed the premise of Farm From a Box?
1:46.4	You know, when I look back, I don't really know if there's any way that I couldn't become a horticulturist.
1:52.4	So my degrees in horticulture, I come from a long line of farmers and growers on both sides of my family. So it's always been something I was interested in.
1:59.4	But really my interest in this work came from helping my dad turn our tiny little Milwaukee backyard into a really productive fruit and vegetable garden when I was a kid.
2:10.4	And, you know, when I was young, I didn't really realize the significance of that. But when I got into high school in college, I realized that that really wasn't a common experience for everyone.
2:19.4	So, you know, that was such a formative experience, both growing the food that we ate, but also realizing that other people weren't quite as lucky.
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