The So, Aloha and welcome everyone to this episode of the Red Nation podcast.

I'm Oahuakea Maile. Some of you may have heard my own podcast with Nick Estes early in the Red Nations podcast's days.

And some of you may have heard my interviews with Dr. Eva Jewel talking about the scam of reconciliation as well as my dear

dear friend Kanaka Maui activist and scholar Shele Munioka I'm so happy to be

back on the show and to be talking to a new friend of mine, a new

hoa aina, a new friend of the aina and land, Sam howden. Sam howden is a Red River

May tea from Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, also a scholar, researcher, organizer, and farmer in their own right.

Here in Toronto, the dish with one spoon treaty territory.

And I'm so honored to have Sam on the show speaking with me about X University in all its devastating and interesting and thought-provoking angles for our discussion. The struggle continues and is ongoing. It is not over. So very excited to have Sam on the show. very honored. You know, the first time I met Sam was with our mutual dear friend and spice and I think we bonded a little bit over plants and specifically tobacco. I've been such a fan of growing

tobacco since moving to Toronto a few years ago and I got to know a lot about Sam

based on their work in urban farming.

And so I want to just say, you know, offer my aloha and mahalo for you being here

and kick off the show with thinking about farming and thinking about food sovereignty and

food security, especially in urban spaces. And so I'd love to hear you talk about

Sam, your own involvement in urban farming as an urban

farmer and also some of your work as a researcher that intersect with that to

start us off and if you'd love to introduce yourself

before doing that please do.

Don't see? Yeah so I am I have been a member of X universities community for about the past five years.

And I've been in Takarano for about almost eight years now.

And I've been in the realm of urban farming

for about a year and a half now.

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