(bright lively music) >>People often talk about the challenges in rural communities.

There certainly are.

And then you have, I think the opportunities.

>>I'm trying to create dialogue and to get them to think of the other perspective.

(bright lively music) >>The role of a planner is to see the big picture.

>>If I don't paint the picture for you, how will you understand?

>>The understanding that we all have family.

We all want the best for our kids, our friends.

(speaking in foreign language) (sliding door whooshing) >>All the volunteers and people that came.

It gave me my faith in humanity.

(laughs happily) (bright lively music) >>This person could use just a hand up.

Not a handout, but just a hand up.

>>There's a beauty in a local food system, period.

>>What we've lost over time was, remember your doctor was your local neighbor, so was your pharmacist.

(speaker speaking in foreign language) >>Agriculture is not the planting of crops.

Agriculture is the cultivation of the human spirit.

(bright lively music) >>I always go on the side of hope.

Like, that's what the fight is for.

>>No one wants to struggle alone anymore.

>>I think we live for each other.

>>We're all intertwined, you know, as the land, the people?

To keep it going for generations to come.

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