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quickly revealed the cold, hard truth to any consumer who didn't already know. Our globalized

industrial food system is broken, a truth that's further magnified by today's tariff wars.

Change has been necessary for a long time, but now it's all too evident

and a bold idea is taking hold. What if we return to a time when our needs were met by producers

and our own communities to a food system that prioritizes the health of our families, our communities,

and a planet over profit at all costs ethos, a grafting of the best modern agricultural and environmental practices onto community-based

food systems. In her new book, Reaping What She Sows, How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System,

Nancy Mastomoto introduces readers to the

women change makers who are building local and regional supply chains. Maverick farmers, millers, and

bakers who are bringing back local grain economies, brewers, distillers and winemakers who are

regenerating land and ecosystems,

indigenous and diasporic seed savers, and more.

With Nancy and me today is Kathleen Finley,

president of Glenwood Farm in Cold Spring, New York,

and also, incidentally, my dad's partner and a friend of Nancy's.

Kathleen graciously accepted my invite to guest co-host. Here we are. Welcome to food,

Nancy. Kathleen, I'm so glad to have you here as my co-host. I'm delighted to be here.

Kat, why don't you start? So, Nancy, you've traveled all over the country, country the united states and a little bit in your country of canada a couple excursions because as you say in the book coffee and chocolate

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