From family table to food sovereignty

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Tia Stuart. She is the co-owner of the Restoration Family Farm in Trotwood, Ohio. Tia shares how her farming journey was rooted in caring for her family’s health, and how that purpose expanded into a commitment to nourishing her broader community. She reflects on the critical role small-scale farmers play in advancing food sovereignty and why cultivating consumer awareness of soil health is essential to building resilient food systems.

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Healing the soil, rebuilding the farm

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Gregory Stover. He co-owns the Stover Farm with his wife. The Stover Farm transitioned to organic regenerative farming due to its desire to produce healthy food. Greg is motivated by the possibility of great outputs with their sustainability focus. He highlights the challenge of maintaining financial sustainability as a farmer.

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Friends, Farming, and a Future Reimagined

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, Tinu Daboiku. He is the passionate owner and steward of Glorified Dirt LLC and Farm. As a beginning farmer, Tinu was motivated by friends to embrace farming not just as a livelihood, but as a pathway to self-sufficiency and regeneration. Through his journey, Tinu reveals how regenerative practices are a long-term investment in healing the soil, securing our food future, and addressing the pressing challenges of production agriculture.

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Farming for health: How healing the soil healed us

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, Reinhold and Melissa Finkes. They are the passionate owners of the Finch Creek Farm in Xenia, Ohio. What started with just 2 acres has now grown into a thriving 300-acre regenerative farm. Faced with serious health challenges, Reinhold and Melissa made a powerful discovery: to heal themselves, they had to heal the soil. Today, their pasture-raised livestock operation is rooted in the belief that real wellness begins with how we treat the land.

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The $1 farm that’s feeding the community

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Gregory Muhammad. He is the passionate owner of the Oasis Agricultural Learning Center in Dayton, Ohio. In 2011, Gregory bought his 4.5-acre farm for just one dollar. With a deep respect for the science of soil and sustainability, he turned his humble plot into a hub for community nourishment and empowerment. Gregory calls on consumers to look past “perfect” produce and value real food.

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Hands in the dirt, eyes on the future: Regeneration at Antioch

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Bruce Linebaugh. He is the farm manager at the Antioch College Farm, Yellow Springs, Ohio. More than just a classroom, the student-managed farm is contributing to environmental sustainability, fostering strong community connections, and empowering the next generation of change-agents. Bruce describes efforts at regenerating the farm with alfalfa hay and ongoing effort toward supporting communities with healthy, farm produce.

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Clucking through challenges: The Irbys’ path to food resilience

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, Dale and Christine Irby. The couple co-owns Irby’s Old School Farm in Dayton, Ohio. With no farming experience, Dale and Christine started raising chickens at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, transforming uncertainty into empowerment. But it wasn’t easy. From lack of support to weather challenges, Dale and Christine faced real barriers. Yet, through determination and community spirit, their impact is felt by their family and their neighborhood. The Irbys talk about the power of starting small, the importance of healthy food education, and why they believe more people should feel inspired by growing their own food.

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Family first, soil always: Inside Fairlands Inc.

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, Rick and Brittney Miller. The father-daughter duo manages the Fairlands Inc. With deep roots in regenerative agriculture, the Millers’ grow non-GMO produce for both local and international markets. Rick brings decades of hands-on experience, while Brittney shares how she’s helping steer the farm toward a more intentional, adaptable future. Brittney opens up about the ongoing battle of produce pricing and marketing but finds joy in the freedom and flexibility that farming gives her and her family.

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Why Hemp might just change everything

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, TJ Richardson and Justin Helt. The duo co-owns The Ohio Hemp Company (TOHC) in New Carlisle, Ohio. Founded in 2020, TOHC is driven by the cultivation and promotion of high-quality hemp fiber and grains. They work alongside farmers and researchers to validate the potential of hemp as a renewable resource that reduces environmental impact and offers natural alternatives to plastics, textiles, feed, and more. But their journey isn’t without hurdles, TJ and Justin describes limited processing infrastructure, lack of funding, climate change, and lack of public education. Despite these challenges, TJ and Justin remains steadfast in their mission to lay the groundwork for a more resilient, hemp-powered future in Ohio and beyond.

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Edgemont grows: Revitalizing community through regenerative farming

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Rhonda Miller. Rhonda is a board member of the Greater Edgemont Community Coalition and Solar Garden in Dayton, Ohio. Since its founding in the 1970s, the community organization has been the heartbeat of Edgemont, sustaining its identity and revitalization through regenerative urban farming education. Rhonda passionately emphasizes the importance of passing down farming knowledge to the next generation as a means of survival. Thankfully, support from the city is growing too, helping to cultivate a future where Edgemont’s legacy of resilience and self-reliance continues to bloom.

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Sowing strength through farming

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Donnetta Boykin. Donnetta founded the Seven Seed Sowers Co-Op in Dayton, Ohio, to support beginning farmers as they establish their operations. For her, farming is more than just growing food, it is a place of therapy and renewal. Donnetta speaks with gratitude about support from the city of Dayton and the wealth of knowledge through skill-shares. Yet, despite these bright spots, Donnetta is candid about the frustrating barriers in navigating the complex and often discouraging grant application process.

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From one generation to the next: Sustaining soil and legacy

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, John Evans. He owns the Evans Farms in New Carlisle, Ohio. With roots that stretch back about 120 years, John’s passion for farming was cultivated early through his family’s deep connection to the land. Listen as John reflects on the pressing realities of climate change, which he describes as the most disturbing challenge facing production agriculture today. He also shares his succession plans, preparing his children to carry forward his regenerative legacy rooted in stewardship and sustainability.

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“I am a placeholder”: Cultivating richness

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Sharifa Tomlinson. From being a nurse to farmer, Sharifa stewards the Arrowrock Farm and Urban Sanctuary in Dayton, Ohio. At the beginning, Sharifa was buying soil to get things growing, but soon realized healthy soil is something to build. That shift sparked her journey into regenerative practices. She describes herself as a placeholder, making her 12-acre farm available so others can grow, thrive, and farm together through a cooperative model.

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From soil to food sovereignty: Agraria’s impact

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, Eric Bee and Rebecca Potter. They both serve Agraria Center for Regenerative practices located in Yellow Springs, Ohio. On a 138-acre educational farm, they fulfill the Center’s mission of hands-on farming, community engagement, and ecological restoration. They believe there should be no monopoly in the food system and emphasize through their work, the indigenous and historical knowledge of farming.

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Feeding change, the truest path

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champion, Cory Stratton. He is a co-owner of Truest Farms located in Mechanicsburg, Ohio. Cory resigned from his job to become a full-time livestock farmer because of his concerns about the prevalence of unhealthy processed food. In his 4th year, his operation has grown exponentially from 350 to about 5000 birds. Listen as he describes various forms of support and lessons learned. Maybe you’ll join him as he invites more people to get engaged and contribute to healthy food security.

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Rooted together: A farming couple’s mission to heal the land

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Join us for a conversation with our regenerative champions, Graham and Tonni Oberly. They are the passionate stewards of Oaks and Sprouts Limited in Urbana, Ohio. The Oberly’s took over their family farm with motivation to restore soil health and provide healthy food for consumers. Listen as they discuss balancing the cost of farm inputs with growing high-quality produce for their growing consumer base.

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There was no model for me: Small-scale and growing for convenience

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Tiffany Bourgeois. She is an African American woman, a new/beginning small-scale and regenerative farmer who manages ‘All About Growing’ in Columbus, Ohio. Though engaged with her day job, Tiffany describes how the lack of people like her in agriculture deterred her from choosing an agricultural-related career, the need to instill deliberate values in her young children, and her belief that agricultural sustainability can be achieved.

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Cultivating gardens for community welfare

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Anisa Ahmad. She is a Punjabi woman from the Indian subcontinent, a small-scale and regenerative farmer who manages the Franklin Avenue Community Garden in Columbus, Ohio. She describes how getting her feet and hands dirty cured her mysterious ailment, her work with young children in the garden, and how the garden has enhanced a sense of community belonging among its residents.

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“He started us in the garden”: Black churches as agents of change

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Paula Penn-Nabrit. She is an African American woman, a small-scale and regenerative farmer who co-owns the Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden in Columbus, Ohio with her children. She describes how her family felt healed working in the garden as a ‘free grief therapy’, the fruitful collaborations and engagements in the garden, and the hope for understanding and support from Black churches.

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Cultivating change: Empowering youths’ interest in agriculture

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Jodi Spencer. She is an African American woman, a small-scale and regenerative farmer who manages the Dorothy England Farm in Columbus, Ohio. Though her farming passion got her an agricultural major degree, Jodi describes her solitary farming experience in the early beginnings, the need to instill self-efficacy belief among Black and Brown children and advocates for unprivileged small-scale farmers’ to be supported with grants and scholarships toward skills and knowledge acquisition.

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Collective joy: Impact of the urban farm church

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Taylor Green. He is a young small-scale, new/beginning regenerative farmer who manages The Urban Farm Church in Columbus, Ohio as the Farm Developer and Education manager. Taylor describes his dissatisfaction with the food system and how he began farming as an apprentice. At the urban farm church, he is helping to build communities around farming, an idea initially unexciting to residents. The farm now enjoys huge community support and has seen a few residents convert their lawns into growing spaces.

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Gratitude and need: The experience of a new-young farmer

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Jada Williams. She is a young African American, a small-scale and new beginning regenerative farmer who manages the Fresh Roots Farm in Columbus, Ohio. She describes how self-determination propels her to contribute to healthy food accessibility concerns of her community and her needs towards sustaining her farming operation.

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Small-scale farms: The panacea for healthy food

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Kendyl Meadows. She is a woman and a small-scale beginning regenerative farmer, who manages the Three Creeks Produce with her husband in Groveport, Ohio. She describes their desire in the food system as wholesale vegetable farmers, how lack of confidence and knowledge were challenges in their early beginnings, and how they have continued to sustain their farming decisions through knowledge sharing with other farms.

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Regenerative agriculture as a promising path toward sustainability

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Rachel Tayse. She is a woman and a small-scale beginning regenerative farmer who manages the Harmonious Homestead Farm in Columbus, Ohio. She describes her entry into farming, perspectives on regenerative agriculture, and how valuable community relationships have earned her multiple funded projects.

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Regenerative knowledge in minority community

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Dianne Kadonaga. She is a Japanese Canadian and a small-scale beginning regenerative farmer who manages the Sunny Glen Garden in Columbus, Ohio. She describes how she lost her family farming history, and how her health needs influenced her backyard garden which has since been converted into a community demonstration space.

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Voice of change for Farmers of color

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Sophia Buggs. She is an African American woman and a small-scale beginning regenerative farmer who manages the Lady Buggs Pharm in Youngstown, Ohio. She describes her journey into agriculture – from lack of community support to becoming a hometown hero and her effort in advancing Farmers of color representation in Ohio and countrywide.

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Seed for change in the community

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Minister Aaron K. Hopkins. He is an African American and a small-scale beginning regenerative farmer who manages the SouthSide Family Farms in Columbus, Ohio. He describes how food became a way to reconnect and build relationships among his community members, his farming needs, and the diverse networking opportunities that have sustained his regenerative farming decision.

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Food access and community empowerment

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A conversation with our regenerative champion, Julialynne Walker. She is an African American woman and a small-scale regenerative farmer who manages the Bronzeville Growers Market in Columbus, Ohio. She describes the need for healthy food accessibility, the factors hindering change in her community, and the benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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