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  • - Conetoe was a food desert.

  • But I wanted to do somethin' about it.

  • We began to grow, and we began

  • to put our hearts and hands together,

  • and Conetoe is no longer a food desert.

  • Conetoe is a food oasis.

  • (piano music)

  • I'm Reverend Richard R. Joyner,

  • founder of Conetoe Family Life Center.

  • Conetoe is a rural area

  • in the eastern part of North Carolina.

  • Population of about 300 people.

  • A food desert really means that the residents here

  • do not have access to fresh, locally affordable grown foods.

  • We would buy most of our food from discount stores,

  • which are high in sodium, calories,

  • very low in nutritional values.

  • People had these early stages of chronic disease,

  • diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes,

  • and even mental illness because of the stress and the pain.

  • People were dyin' in their 30s and 40s.

  • We would be havin' two to three funerals a month

  • and really devastating families.

  • (engine rumbling)

  • I was really feelin' overwhelmed, and feelin' hopeless,

  • because I couldn't stop this chronic disease.

  • I pulled on the side of the road

  • and really started praying,

  • wanting to know what could I do.

  • And I had this epiphany of open your eyes, look around.

  • And I'd open my eyes, and all I saw was fields.

  • (piano music)

  • So, we started our first small garden.

  • And now we're up to 21 acres of farmland.

  • We have about eight people

  • that are parents and grandparents of our youth,

  • that work here every day.

  • We have 40 students durin' the summer that use this farm

  • for their readin', writin', math and science

  • and for food.

  • Presently on our farm, we have blueberries, tomatoes;

  • we have collards; we have squash; we have zucchini.

  • We end up averaging 100 pounds of food per week

  • out of the garden.

  • Food that we grow has had a tangible impact

  • upon our community.

  • We're able to put food on people's tables.

  • Hello, I have your vegetables. - Hello, Reverend Joyner.

  • - [Richard] All right, our community is spending $4,000

  • less a month on prescription pills, because the food--

  • - The deaths have slowed down;

  • we're not havin' as many funerals.

  • I feel like we are makin' a difference.

  • I love this community here because we're unitin'

  • around savin' lives together.

  • (acoustic guitar music)

  • (electronic music)

- Conetoe was a food desert.

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ノースカロライナ州の農村部に希望をもたらした一人の男の方法 (How One Man Brought Hope to Rural North Carolina)

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