 Brave Child Farm is a farm that I created to produce Asian vegetables. One of the things that my parents had a challenge with when I was a child is finding authentic Japanese vegetables that they can use to create authentic Japanese dishes and try to convey some values, Japanese values, through cooking, through home cooking. Yuko came to the BC Land Matching Program when she was coming out of the UBC Farm Practicum Program. We worked with her to find her property and help her start her farm business. Finding farmland in the lower mainland is almost impossible. The prices are just astronomical and the BC Land Matching Program provides me with the opportunity to farm a land without having to purchase it. They provided so much support from finding a property to helping me talk to the land owner, and negotiate through contracts, and help me with my business plan when I needed it. There was no defining moment that made me say, I want to go into farming. There's a lot of things that came into play. Obviously, the birth of my children and wanting to make sure that I left a world for them that was better than what I came into. And being able to produce a lot of these vegetables locally and being consumed locally is going to make a huge difference.