Healing and Universalism: "The most powerful healers are wounded healers who utilize their own experience to be able to support and create change within our communities of practice."

The Power of Creating Open Spaces: "It was engaging youth right away as youth employment. That was actually what my thesis was was on, was creating a alternative sentencing program using art therapy adolescent, criminally involved youth, you know, like, really providing healing and productive experiences through art, and I just pivoted it to food."

Restoring Public Spaces: "Let's do restorative justice in our communities and grow in food and grow beautiful spaces and be in service to elders who might need help, you know, moving tools back and forth and in just having kindness and generosity in spaces that were empty lots or spaces that just the community itself felt in worked for them."

The Power of Community in Creating a Peaceful World: "The more people who can tend to these spaces, these groves, these, like, like, beautiful in Arenas that people can heal and connect with each other in different ways and also have conflict and and resolve it or not resolve it, but we're engaged, really does that process of curiosity and meeting people..."

Urban Farming: "Food production belongs in the urban commons, and that it literally is the commons because we all share that space."

The Impact of Urban Agriculture on Climate Change: "Now that we've proven that not only is urban agriculture critical for our mental health, our physical health, our reclamation of spaces, in remediation of spaces, but most importantly, within climate change, an opportunity to lessen our carbon mode in And our methane load that we're emitting into the environment. So there's so many dimensions, Paul."

The Art of Balancing Growth and Sustainability in Agriculture: "I think that, you know, it's just a lot of folks preparing land, taking care of stewarding space, taking care of themselves, in Learning how to be balanced within the world."

Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: "So we have this urban ag kinda, you know, more traditional agriculture in the context of urban agriculture and then green era where we're taking in food waste and converting it in to back to compost by capturing methane to create and supply compressed natural gas just from in Capturing the methane that happens during that breakdown, the decomposition process."

The Impact of Redlining in Chicago: "So all of those things are coming together, and I could see it this year."

Building a Sustainable Future: "Just thinking about those loops, you know, circular economies, it's just good for everybody. It's less exploitive, but it's also an important strategy in climate resiliency."