Hey everybody and welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. You're here today with

Kara at Williard and of course you can check out everything else we are doing and reviewing over at

blisterreview.com. So I'm here today for our fourth and final installment of Blisters, Mountain Towns, and Local

Food Systems series. And so if you haven't heard the previous three episodes, I highly recommend

that you go back and do that now. Now, today for the fourth part, I not only had another

interesting and really inspiring conversation. I also got to sit down with the one

and only Jonathan Ellsworth. And we looked back at some of the major takeaways and broader themes

and why we left feeling very inspired after this series over the last several weeks. So,

stick around for that. And for today's guest, I got to sit down with Rachel Landis, who is the

executive director of the Good Food Collective. And you will soon find out why Rachel left a career of

guiding and ski patrol to become the ultimate facilitator of local food. She talks a lot about food

hubs, so you'll soon learn a whole lot more about what a food hub is

and all the impressive work that her organization is doing in her community of Durango, Colorado.

Not only that, but Rachel does an incredible job of contextualizing a lot of the work that she is doing

into models that can be replicated in other communities

that we care about. So thanks so much to Rachel for this excellent conversation. I know I learned

a whole lot. And with that, let's get right into my conversation with Rachel Landis and then of course

stick around for my reflection with Jonathan Ellsworth as we look back at this entire series

and why local food is important to the communities that we care about.

All right.

Well, I am here today with Rachel Landis of the Good Food Collective in Durango, Colorado.

And I am so excited to welcome you to the show today.

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