Alleycat Acres from sean conroe on Vimeo.
Erick Haakenson
Owner, Jubliee Farm, Carnation, Wash.
Segment 1 -- 00:00:25
I don't feel like I run a business, in which I'm just doing a job. I try to make money (Shrugs). I feel like I'm involved in a project, and the project is really global in extent: to try to make agriculture a part of our lives again.
You know the word agriculture, of course culture is the second half of that word. And at one time there was tremendous culture developed around the growing of food, the eating of food and the preparing of food. I think we've gotten away from that, and it's time to get back.
Segment 2 -- 00:01:17
We need 50 million new farmers. You know, that's an incredible new industry for a country, right now, that is scraping hard to find jobs -- we have tremendous unemployment. But I ask myself, 'how is that going to happen?' And I don't exactly know what the answer is. And yet I see things like what you're doing, and in that I see the beginning of the answer.
And I guess that's it. I see in a lot of young people kind of the willingness to say, we don't need all these things. We'll take this much, these are our needs, but we don't need more. And then I see tremendous efforts on people's parts to reach out to other folks. And that's exciting to me.
Segment 3 -- 00:03:01
You know, I hope it's a revolution. I see people like you guys, and think, you guys are the revolutionaries of the future. Not only does it not have to be done in the way it has in the past, as we were saying earlier, you know, it's probably the method of peace that comes through agriculture that is much more likely to create a lasting solution -- instead of just another problem that's going to get overcome by yet another violent revolution. It's going to be a revolution of peace.
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