 Good morning! I just want to thank you all for coming to this gathering and also to our great city because I know the mayor is going to say something about this but welcome to the greatest city in America. We have a lot of great things in this city going on and one of them is our food, is really building our food system here. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking because this is not my conference. It's not Growing Powers Conference. It's all of our conference. The one goal that I want to see happen here over the next three days is that you all get inspired because in 2010 we were in another building just right up the street here. At the end of the conference at a closing I asked all of you over here to go back to your communities and go to work. Now go back and just sit around at a table and talk about are you going to build the food system or go back and start doing something regardless of how small it is. They hope to build the food systems in your community to make sure that they're culturally appropriate, that we're building a local food system that will change the dynamics of your community in so many different ways in a way that will make people healthier, that will improve the environment, that will create jobs and boy did you all do it. As I travel around the country and I've traveled a lot and lived around with my knee and hip replacements, you know I've seen the change in the last two years. I've seen the revolution grow far beyond my expectations, far beyond growing power's expectations. So you all went back and really went to work. So we said that we would do this in two years and here we are. We're back here two years later. You all came back to go on. So this weekend, over the next three days, one of the charges I give you all is to get to know people. We're all in the one building and it's a big building but we're under one tent and it's going to give us an opportunity with all the activities, all the breakout sessions to really get to know each other and build relationships that will lead to partnerships because we cannot do this in a vacuum. We cannot build our food systems, individual organizations. We have to work together with everybody in our community and that's why we have these 17 tracks, tracks like a medical track because now hospitals and doctors and nurses and dietitians have joined the Good Food Revolution and it's very important, integrated medicine. You'll see a panel with doctors and dietitians and so forth later and they'll talk about what they're doing, how they connected with farmers and farm groups and other people in their community to really get involved in preventative medicine because we know we have unsustainable health system and only way to fix that is by them going out in the community and doing what doctors should have been doing all along. So that's going to be very important and the planners that are here and the environmentalists that are here and the policy people, their policy tracks, their tracks with politicians, with corporate companies that are here. Everybody's got to be in the same table. We need everybody in the same table working together. No longer can we just say we don't want this group in the table, we don't want that group in the table because we have a severe situation in this country where we don't have enough good food and people are still getting sick and people don't have adequate food, one out of three children tonight will go to bed without a meal. So we have to fix that. We have no choice. It's about our survival and the only way we're going to fix it is work together and do the work from the grassroots. But now we have these top down operators that are joining the revolution and that's good because they have such strong value too and they want to be a part of it. So that's what this is all about, getting together, getting us re-energized so we can go back out in our communities and continue to do the work and scale up. There's so much vacant land and so many vacant buildings and so many possibilities to be able to grow food and fish and vacant buildings and to grow farms on asphalt and on concrete and when you go on tour you'll see that. We have to quantify things because we have all these young people. This is dominated now by not people my age but by the under 40 group and we have to prove that you can make a living, you can make a sustainable living with a local food system. That's what we have to quantify. We have to figure out how many fish that we need to raise to produce a $50,000 a year job. We need to prove how many hoop houses do we have to put up to grow food here around. So a lot of the work that Growing Power is doing is to help build a food system in our community in Southeast Wisconsin and Milwaukee but to also quantify a lot of things, working with groups like the Great Lakes Institute and being powered by companies like Nature's Path and Coles Corporation who help with funding and are very much involved and want to make sure that their employees live a sustainable life and we're very fortunate here in Milwaukee because we have the political folks that are on our team. The mayor, Willie Hines is a leader of the Common Council who has been very supportive of what we've been doing for years. So we need to pass on some of that to other cities so we can get those political folks on our team. So again, I want to welcome you all. I can stand up here and talk about this all day but we're going to hear from so many different people. Enjoy yourself while you're here. The food is local. A lot of it was produced by Growing Power in our 200 acres and other farmers from the region so enjoy the food, enjoy the time, get to know each other, meet other people, enjoy the music, enjoy the films, enjoy everything. Get out into the city and I know the mayor is going to tell you to spend some money when you go down into Milwaukee. Spend some money, you know, to help us but we feel that Milwaukee is on the track of becoming a sustainable community and every community in America and every community around the world because this is a worldwide dilemma that we have. It's not just in the U.S. but all over the country, all over the world that we need to build sustainable communities in the villages, in the small towns that are suffering. So get out and enjoy the city, enjoy your time here if you need anything. We have a lot of staff. You'll see, Growing Power is 140 employees now so we have a lot of staff here. If you need anything, ask our staff. Ask a lot of questions. If you see something, ask questions about it so we can answer those questions. So we want to leave here very energized, have a lot of power to go back in our communities and build healthy, sustainable, culturally appropriate food systems and everything that we do is really wrapped around social and food justice. If you're not doing something that's wrapped around that, it's not going to work, it's not going to sustain itself. So that's what this county will see, a lot of breakout sessions around food justice with our Growing in Food and Justice part of our organization and organizations around the country. So thank you very much and just welcome.