 I'm Brent Lubbert with Big Muddy Urban Farm, executive director, and we're in Omaha, Nebraska. We're at the community garden in Gifford Park, which houses the youth garden behind me here. And Big Muddy Urban Farm is integral to the youth garden programming during the summer. There's also a residency program where young people 19 to 28 spend a year in two houses in the neighborhood. They put together a business plan and start to select crops and really go through the decision making parts of building a business, a farm business, and then they put that into action on five lots in the neighborhood. Residents kind of figure out how to do marketing for the CSA program, how to retain customer information. So some of the produce goes to that, then we're also selling at the farmer's market that's in the neighborhood, and sometimes there's an occasional restaurant sale in there too. With the SAER Youth Educator Grant that we applied for, that helped us with incorporating residents into the youth garden programming. So the residents not only are they putting the business together, they're also learning how to teach that to a group of 30 youth gardeners ages three to 13. Also part of the SAER Youth Educator Grant we were able to take the kids get out of the city environment and go to Honey Creek Creamery which is a goat farm about 20 minutes away. For a majority of the kids they've not been to a farm and so this was their first experience being on a farm. They were also able to milk goats. There's a dairy processing facility over at that farm and so able to kind of see the process. And we went on a hike as well and went to the top of the spluff and kind of looked over the agricultural landscape and natural landscape. So it was definitely a really good experience for the kids. I think urban agriculture is vitally important for shaping our food system. It provides an education so when you're out there working on the plot in the neighborhood there's many people walking by and they're wondering what's going on, what you're doing and those kind of questions which then as a urban farmer you're able to kind of talk about the soil. You're able to talk about the plants that you're growing and being able to provide that like source information of what it's like to grow crops. The pest issues, the soil fertility process you know all these different things that then can as an urban consumer can impact them and start to be able to have discussions on a larger wavelength on what's going on with soil and how can we shape our food system democratically with many voices getting to a better outcome.