Hi, everyone. Welcome to a very special edition of The Don Lemon Show. I saw something on social media that caught my eye and I immediately reached out to these folks, hoping I could get them on. Let me show you what I saw and then we're going to interview someone who was in that video to explain to us what's going on and if they received any help. Here it is.

Hey, guys. My name's Nolan Agar and I'm a senior at E.C. Reynolds High School and a fifth

generation farmer here at Hickorynuck Gap. I just want to take a minute to share something

important that's happening on our local food system. For the past three years, Hickory Nut Gap,

has been honored to provide locally sourced, grass-fed beef to schools across North Carolina

through a program that made high-quality nutritious food more accessible to kids.

It's been a way for farms like ours to directly support our community, making sure students

get good food on their plates while strengthening local agriculture.

We just received notice that federal funding for this program, the local food for schools

and child care initiative, has been pulled as part of recent cost-saving measures.

We get that budgets are tight, but this program wasn't about making money.

It was about something bigger, building community through agriculture, connecting kids with local food, and keeping dollars circulating in our local economy.

We'd love to see this decision reconsidered.

If you care about keeping local food in our schools, now's the time to speak up.

Thanks for being a part of this journey with us.

Let's keep pushing for a food system that supports our farmers, our kids, and our future.

Yeah, good folks there, and I'm so glad that I saw that, and I am so happy to be joined by Jamie

Agar, who is the CEO and owner of Hickory NutGap Farm,

located in Fairview, North Carolina, a pillar of the community you are.

Thank you very much, Jamie, for joining us.

How are you doing?

Good.

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