Hi, Bombs squad. Welcome to Food for Thought, a radio Cherry Bomb miniseries.

I'm Carrie Diamond, editor-in-chief of Cherry Bomb magazine.

We wanted to know what's on the mind of food folk across the country, so we went on tour

to eat, drink, and talk with

hundreds of you and recorded the whole thing live. Today's stop is Houston, Texas. We recorded this

episode live at Nancy's Hustle, a happen-in-eatery with some seriously delicious food. Thank you to

Kerrigold for supporting our Food for Thought tour. Kerrigold is the Irish brand known for its award-winning butter and cheese,

made with milk from grass-fed cows from family farms all over Ireland.

We'll be hearing more about their amazing products later, so stay tuned.

First up, we'll hear from Zay Games and Kat Yanda of Finka Trace Robles about community farming and kids.

So before I started working at Finca Thres Robles, the urban farm in the East End,

I had no experience whatsoever in agriculture. I graduated with a degree in

women's studies and sociology. So it was completely new. But at Finkun, learning how to be a farmer,

I was able to make a new connection with my environment with Houston, even though I'd been

living in Houston for my whole life.

Because at the farm, I learned that if you try to grow lettuce in May, it will taste terrible.

And if you don't cover the tomatoes during freezing weather in January,

they will die and you will lose about a month of growing time that you can't get back until

the next year. And I guess that's something that I'd like Houston folks to know that things going on outside

that we may be super insulated to really affect our food production here.

And we're really trying, the Houston farming scene is small, but it's growing.

And as y'all are growing with us as consumers that's something

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