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Speaker 1: Previously on Witian House.

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Speaker 2: This executive order emboldens the states and cities to follow

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Speaker 2: the lead right of what this executive order is saying.

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Speaker 2: So what will be the impact? Just like undoubtedly worse

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Speaker 2: without question, if more and more people are being brought

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Speaker 2: doesn't get at the root issue. These are ineffective measures

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Speaker 2: and then they are deeply harmful. So we are going

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Speaker 2: to have more trauma, more harm, wasted resources and not

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Speaker 2: can only further show that this isn't about helping people.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Wityan House. I'm your host, Leo Henderson. This

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Speaker 3: week we're going to tackle two competing movements. First the

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Speaker 3: violence of language and his weaponization against the unhoused, and

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Speaker 3: on the other end, the hopeful light of food justice

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Speaker 3: organizers fighting against this hate as the glue of the

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Speaker 3: community keeping everyone fed and connected.

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Speaker 1: But first on House.

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Speaker 3: News, getting one's message out to be understood is key

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Speaker 3: in any successful communication. Language matters, words matter, and one's

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Speaker 3: message matters. A vivid example is the death of the

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Speaker 3: most reviled rabbit and racist podcaster Charlie Kirk. Kirk was

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Speaker 3: an unrepentant white supremacist and Christian nationalists that inspired and

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Speaker 3: fomented a violent ideology which ultimately led to his death.

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Speaker 3: His hateful language was used to demonize people of color,

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Speaker 3: the ULGBQTIA community, women, and the list goes on. The

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Speaker 3: frightening part of this detestable man's message is it is

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Speaker 3: becoming normalized. Recently, an aspect the violent language was used

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Speaker 3: by Fox News anchors about the unhoused community.

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Speaker 4: They have given billions of dollars to mental health and

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Speaker 4: the homeless population. A lot of them don't want to

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Speaker 4: take the programs. A lot of them don't want to

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Speaker 4: get the health that is necessary. You can't give them

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Speaker 4: a choice. Either you take the resources that we're going

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Speaker 4: to be locked up in jail.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it has to be.

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Speaker 2: Now, or involuntary lethal injective or something just.

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Speaker 1: Kill on the kill.

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Speaker 3: Previously, the Mayor of Lancaster, Raymond Paris, said this about

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Speaker 3: unhoused people and the use of fitanol.

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Speaker 5: I could give them the fentanyl, I would I absolutely

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Speaker 5: would make no mistake about it. Did you have something

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Speaker 5: you wanted to share with us other than your anger

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Speaker 5: and your rage?

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Speaker 6: Well, what kind of a major talks about giving the

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Speaker 6: homeless fentanyl and you.

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Speaker 4: Guys don't say anything about it.

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Speaker 7: That's a metaphor no metaphor what do you saying that for.

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Speaker 5: I'm saying, if you want, I do not want the

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Speaker 5: homeless criminal population who are drug addicted, who are robbing,

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Speaker 5: raping and murdering our citizens to Maggie in Lancaster and yes,

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Speaker 5: if I could give this that particular population fentanyl, I

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Speaker 1: An man.

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Speaker 5: I'm an equal man man, because I don't want drug

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Speaker 1: That's evil.

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Speaker 5: Well, then I am in.

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Speaker 3: With so much happening with the unhoused community today, it

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Speaker 3: an opportune time to remember, if you can demonize a

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Speaker 3: the time in our communities to speak out, not power

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Speaker 3: we'll chat with organizers at the Krenshaw Farmers' Market. Welcome

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Speaker 3: back to Weedian House. I'm Theo Henderson. Recently we've been

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Speaker 3: Last month I went to Thermo, California and Coachella Valley

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Speaker 7: I am organizing with the people who literally are the

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Speaker 7: And yet they are the last to be thought of

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Speaker 7: in just the whole construct of this system. What I

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Speaker 3: This week we're taking a look at a food justice

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Speaker 3: I spoke to organizers with the Crenshaw Farmers' Market ahead

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Speaker 3: of their twentieth anniversary community Badge this upcoming Saturday, September

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Speaker 3: twenty seven. For the last two decades, the Crenshaw Farmers

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Speaker 3: Market has been a place for people to access.

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Speaker 1: Healthy food and build community.

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Speaker 3: And for their big celebration, they're going all out with performances,

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Speaker 3: family friendly activities, and community leaders speaking. Laura, Ashley, Summer

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Speaker 3: We have some very special guests in the studios today.

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Speaker 3: We have an exciting event that's happening on the twenty

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Speaker 3: before I start off and let me introduce our guests. Today,

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Speaker 3: we have Summer, Jennifer and we have Ashley also behind

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Speaker 3: so Ba. Shout out to all of them. So welcome

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Speaker 3: to Willian House and I thank you all for taking

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Speaker 3: the time of your busy schedules to educate us and

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Speaker 8: Thank you for having us. I'm Jennifer Grissom, the executive

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Speaker 8: director of Food Access. La Crenshaw farmers Market is one

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Speaker 8: of our nine farmers' markets.

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Speaker 8: We also do a lot of programming around nutrition security

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Speaker 8: and making sure that people have access to fresh fruits

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Speaker 1: How long have you been working with Food Access.

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Speaker 8: I have been here for just a little over two years,

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Speaker 8: so sometimes it feels like ten, but it's just been two.

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Speaker 3: What motivated you to be working into this exciting field?

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Speaker 8: So I am very passionate about making sure that everybody

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Speaker 3: As you know, times it's changing in so many ways

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Speaker 8: Oh, I think it's very closely aligned. That's a community

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Speaker 8: between unhoused and our farmers and vendors that are at

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Speaker 8: all of our markets. We want them to be able

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Speaker 8: to take advantage of the programs and the benefits that

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Speaker 8: and it's hard to keep up with what's changing, and

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Speaker 8: how do we negotiate what we have to offer and

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Speaker 3: Most recently I did an episode about von house farm

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Speaker 3: workers that are responsible for all of our produce and

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Speaker 3: vegetables from house or on house. If you go to

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Speaker 3: going to the grocery stores and getting the produce from there,

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Speaker 3: When I interviewed a lot of the residents there, there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of shifting priorities. For example, one of the

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Speaker 3: their children will not be an orphaned or without a

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Speaker 8: So absolutely we've been having a lot of those conversations too,

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Speaker 8: a lot of adjusting that's being done and a lot

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Speaker 8: of listening because there's things that we, you know, we

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Speaker 8: it's a big, big obstacle to face and try to

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Speaker 8: and how do we do that correctly? And so you

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll get back with you and I will give

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Speaker 3: the introduce the rest of the team. Ashley in Summer

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Speaker 3: welcome and please tell us a little bit about you guys.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you so much for having us today. My

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Speaker 9: name is Ashley Clayton. I am the Crenshaw Farmers Market

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Speaker 9: Manager and so I am there every Saturday rain er

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Speaker 9: make sure that food is accessible to them.

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Speaker 10: Hi THEO, thank you so much for having us. My

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Speaker 10: name is Summer Vernon and I am the senior Manager

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Speaker 10: of Farmer's Market Operations for Food Access LA and I

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Speaker 10: oversee all of our South LA farmers markets. We have

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Speaker 10: four South LA farmers markets which includes Central Avenue Farmers Market,

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Speaker 10: Crenshaw Farmer's Market, Watswillowbrook Farmers Market and Compton College Farmer's Market.

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Speaker 3: What days are the Farmer's markets, So the audience if

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Speaker 10: Start with our South LA ones. So our South La

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Speaker 10: Ones will start on Wednesday, so we run all nine

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Speaker 10: of our farmers' markets run Wednesdays through Sundays, and so

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Speaker 10: we have Wednesdays, we have WATS Willowbrog Farmers' Markets which

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Speaker 10: And then on Sunday we have two farmers' markets. We

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Speaker 3: Why is this so important to have farmers markets in

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's important to have farmer's markets because we had

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Speaker 8: There is such an importance to having strong, stable local

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Speaker 8: And to some degree it's a real active resistance, you know,

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Speaker 10: Yeah, So to that point, like one of the biggest

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Speaker 10: We were at the bottom holes Crinchhaw Plaza for I

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Speaker 10: Like some people won't go that far because it's not

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Speaker 6: So we have to consider a lot. We really redokate

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Speaker 10: But for us, like there were so many things to

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Speaker 9: Yeah? So, actually, I want to talk about a couple

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Speaker 3: Which is an excellent and brought out too. EBT is

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Speaker 3: maybe a benefit with dealing with farmers' markets is maybe

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Speaker 3: having to a sense of portion control. And this is

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Speaker 3: what I mean as a diverted person, I have to

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Speaker 3: eat at a certain point in time, I have to

443
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Speaker 3: eat a certain make sure my blood sheckle is stable

444
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Speaker 3: where the third of stores, or if I would go

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Speaker 3: into a place like let's say Rous, I would have

446
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Speaker 3: to probably have over an over abundance of food, but

447
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Speaker 3: I can't store it, which helps blo en up the

448
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 3: sugar balloons up the weight. And so whereas if you

449
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Speaker 3: could be able to portion control what you have and

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Speaker 3: a certain way that you can be able to stay

451
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Speaker 3: healthy and not have over overextend yourself financially, that's one

452
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Speaker 3: of the things I think is a benefit to think

453
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Speaker 3: on as well. You don't have to deploy all of

454
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Speaker 3: your funds to a place or you have to price

455
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Speaker 3: match it. Costs could be a lot considerably more cheaper,

456
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Speaker 3: and your gr money at EBT money can go a

457
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Speaker 3: lot farther than it could go into somewhere like places

458
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Speaker 3: that I consider that exploits the un housed, like seven elevens,

459
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Speaker 3: because those proliferation of those seven elevens are occupied by

460
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Speaker 3: people that make it very difficult for you to be

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Speaker 3: able to sustain.

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Speaker 1: Yourself health wise.

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Speaker 3: But also there's limitations on what you can You can't

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Speaker 3: use gr.

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Speaker 1: Funds for hot food. That's another point of contention with me.

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Speaker 3: So when we come back more with the organizers of

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Speaker 3: the print Shop Farmers.

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Speaker 1: Mark, welcome back. This is the o Hindus.

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Speaker 3: Let's jump back into my discussion with the folks at

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Speaker 3: the Crenshaw Farmers Market.

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Speaker 8: We can continue talking about SNAP and EBT benefits too,

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Speaker 8: and I think there's such a personal, you know, perspective

473
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Speaker 8: of that and that's where we come from. I think

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Speaker 8: a lot in our organization of you know, making sure

475
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Speaker 8: we're helping individuals and those dollars go back into the

476
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Speaker 8: market and are going to those farmers, so you know,

477
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Speaker 8: goes back to that point you were talking about where

478
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Speaker 8: we really want to support those farmers and so it's

479
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Speaker 8: really a win win and like it supports this whole

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Speaker 8: group and this you know again local ecosystem which're going

481
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Speaker 8: to hear me say that word a lot, the local

482
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Speaker 8: food economy, but also when you take a step back

483
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Speaker 8: from that, and even if you just you know, I

484
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Speaker 8: don't know why you would want to, but if you

485
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Speaker 8: want to take the personal out of it, when you're

486
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Speaker 8: talking about those snap eb T dollars, and then when

487
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Speaker 8: you add market match into that, those dollars are actually multiplied,

488
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Speaker 8: so when they go back into the local food economy,

489
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Speaker 8: one dollar actually becomes you know, up to a dollar fifty,

490
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 8: sometimes up to a dollar and eighty cents. So you are,

491
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Speaker 8: you're recycling that and strengthening what people can do and

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Speaker 8: they can go further and you know, make the choices.

493
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Speaker 8: And that's something that I love about market match too,

494
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 8: is that it allows people to make some autonomous choices

495
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 8: and what's best for them. And then on top of that,

496
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 8: you're at the farmer's market, you're making relationships with those vendors,

497
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 8: whether it be you know, the Tai curry or it's

498
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 8: the person who's providing you apples. You're making those relationships.

499
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Speaker 8: They're gonna know what you need specifically, so when you

500
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 8: show up the next week, they've got it ready for you.

501
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Speaker 8: And that then just goes back into that community wellness

502
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Speaker 8: that's there.

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Speaker 3: As someone that's us watching their pennies. If you can

504
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 3: be able to have that relationship with the community and

505
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 3: the farmer's market to be able I won't say haggled,

506
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: but be able to they understand your circumstances. And I

507
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 3: know this is from my own personal experience. They work

508
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 3: with you and you can have your to go far.

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Speaker 3: That's that's why I've been kind of in that you

510
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 3: have to understand there's a difference where I couldn't do

511
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 3: that and no routes they don't do.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't give a flying fig.

513
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Speaker 3: I need to hold on to the fifteenth that gr

514
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: but if it's that you know, to re evact activated,

515
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 3: this is what the price is is set in stone.

516
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Speaker 1: Either you can afford it or you cannot, or keep

517
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Speaker 1: it pushing.

518
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Speaker 3: So I think that's one of the things particular where

519
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 3: it is so important to have these kinds of community

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Speaker 3: resources like mutual eight kind of organizations and things like that.

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Speaker 8: So absolutely, I mean like our farmers and vendors are

522
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 8: the most generous people that that we know, we love them.

523
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 8: We have a great community. But you know you just

524
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 8: mentioned the community resources, so I want these two to

525
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 8: talk about. Like, we're talking a lot about food and

526
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 8: that is our focus in our mission, but there are

527
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 8: so many community resources that come to the market.

528
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Speaker 9: So yeah, like she was saying, there's so many different

529
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Speaker 9: community resources that come to the market. One of the

530
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Speaker 9: first ones that comes to mind for me specifically is

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Speaker 9: our nutrition program. So we do have a nutrition team

532
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 9: out food Access LA that regularly makes time to come

533
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 9: to the market and they'll host classes and show people

534
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 9: how they can take some of the produce that we

535
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 9: actually sell at the market and create meals off of them,

536
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 9: and so that is really impactful to the community. I've

537
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 9: seen so many people come through and be like, oh

538
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 9: my gosh, I didn't know that I could do that

539
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 9: with like this tomato. I didn't know that I could

540
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 9: make this healthy version of like juice because one time

541
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 9: they made like homemade fruit punch absolutely amazing, and so

542
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 9: just thinking about stuff like that. And then on top

543
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 9: of that, we also have a lot of community partners

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00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 9: that come into the market and we'll share resources once

545
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 9: a month now Crunchhaw specifically, we're giving away free five

546
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Speaker 9: gallon trees and so if someone is like wanting to

547
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 9: bring a tree into their home. They're able to stop

548
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 9: at the market and like pick up a tree and

549
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Speaker 9: they'll be able to provide like some shading in their home.

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Speaker 6: Let's shut out the organization.

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Speaker 9: It's Korea Town Youth Center, I believe the name of

552
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 9: the organization specifically for center, Yeah, Koreatown Youth Center. And

553
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 9: then we also have a partnership with Metro who regularly

554
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 9: comes out to the market now and they're providing information

555
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 9: on how to sign up for bus passes and get

556
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 9: people and trans and those are just three of the

557
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 9: different ways that we're able to provide resources and programming

558
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 9: at the market. But we're regularly working with community partners

559
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 9: across Los Angeles County and to make sure that we're

560
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Speaker 9: able to bring in additional resources to the community.

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Speaker 10: And it's on top of that just part of the

562
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Speaker 10: community well on us is like bringing in community members

563
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 10: on top of that to bring in resources. So Ashley

564
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 10: is doing a really amazing job at Crenshaw just continuously

565
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 10: bringing in those people and they're continuously reaching out to

566
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Speaker 10: us too. Because on top of food as a resource

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00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 10: and something that kind of feeds you, like being able

568
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Speaker 10: to kind of give other free things to the community

569
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Speaker 10: that's going to kind of serve them other ways is

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00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 10: really important. Also LPL, the Los Angeles Public Library, has

571
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Speaker 10: come out and done some really amazing things at the

572
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Speaker 10: at the market, which I think is a really awesome

573
00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 10: partnership Black Women for Wellness. We really want to start

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Speaker 10: working with them again. And so just like big and small,

575
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 10: kind of like institutional and not, the market is like

576
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 10: a really great place to kind of and we reserve

577
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 10: that space for them, you know. And so if you

578
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 10: are a community organization in LA, especially in South LA,

579
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 10: please reach out to us and because we have that

580
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 10: space for you to provide resources to the community. And

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Speaker 10: then something that's really important for us because that's part

582
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 10: of the market. Food and farmers are what we do,

583
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 10: but it's also creating a space for a community to

584
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 10: gather and to kind of get resources to improve their lives.

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00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 10: So but also actually kind of did something kind of

586
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 10: sparked in me too when you're talking about nutrition classes

587
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 10: and then you were talking about how, you know, the

588
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 10: unhoused community doesn't have some things to cook on a stove.

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00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 10: So I think it'll be good for us to think

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Speaker 10: about how we can incorporate classes or something what type

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00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 10: of things that the market you can prepare without a

592
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 10: stove or with having these other resources that can make

593
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 10: it easy kind of take from the market. So that's

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Speaker 10: kind of something I think we need to start thinking

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Speaker 10: about more.

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Speaker 3: I agree, excellent, Well, I hope you mind if I

597
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Speaker 3: take a shift in the conversation. And I wanted to

598
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 3: talk about what's going on Saturday? So what can we

599
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 3: expect going on on Saturdays? So anyone can answer.

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Speaker 9: On Saturdays in general or on twenty Saturday seven Saturday. Yeah. No,

601
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Speaker 9: So we're actually really really excited. I'm really really excited.

602
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Speaker 9: We're celebrating our twentieth anniversary at the Crenshaw Farmers Market.

603
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 9: I have had the luxury of managing the Farmer's market

604
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 9: for a year now and being able to see all

605
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 9: the new vendors and like old vendors and just everyone

606
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 9: come together to like rally around this special occation has

607
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 9: been really excited for me. We will be having the

608
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 9: Crunchhaw Marching Band from Crunshaw. I will be there performing,

609
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 9: super excited for that. We'll also be having some other

610
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Speaker 9: musical acts. We will be having a dance Artistic. DJ

611
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 9: Artistic will be there. He is very famous on Twitch

612
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Speaker 9: if anybody happens to be on that platform. He has

613
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 9: like thousands and thousands of followers, so he's also very

614
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 9: excited to be there. There's going to be a run

615
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 9: happening as a part of this. Was it the Crenshaw

616
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Speaker 9: Miles having a run?

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Speaker 10: I think South Central Run Social having a community run

618
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 10: starting at nine am or September twenty seventh. So if

619
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Speaker 10: you think dud, they're still sign up. So you can

620
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 10: visit our page at Crenshaw FM to get more information

621
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Speaker 10: on that.

622
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Speaker 9: And please also visit our page Crenshaw FM and sign

623
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Speaker 9: up for our newsletter because we'll continuously be sending out

624
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 9: like emails and information to people about not just this

625
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 9: upcoming twentieth anniversary celebration, but any future activations that we

626
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Speaker 9: have at the market.

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Speaker 10: There'll also be a Spades freeplay from Love, Peace and Spades.

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Speaker 6: What are the community partners at Dancing for the Day.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so we're going to be hosting a dance class

630
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Speaker 9: I mentioned earlier with Old School Skinny, which will be

631
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Speaker 9: a lot of fun. That's happening at twelve pm on Saturday.

632
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 9: We will be hearing from some hopeful leave from some

633
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 9: elected officials that will be speaking at the market. We

634
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 9: will be giving away some cake, so I want to

635
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 9: throw that in there. We will be giving away some cake,

636
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 9: so that should be nice because it's a celebration. You know,

637
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 9: we want to be able to celebrate as much as

638
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 9: we can. We have some merchandise that says Crenshaw on

639
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 9: it for the Farmer's Market. It's going to have like

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Speaker 9: the twentieth anniversary logo. So we're really really excited for this.

641
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 10: And this is of course all to commemorate twenty years

642
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 10: in the Crenshaw district. And so I don't think a

643
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 10: lot of people don't realize that the market has been

644
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 10: around for that long, but we have, and we're really

645
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 10: excited to celebrate that. We have a long history in

646
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 10: the community. I don't know if we want to go

647
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 10: into the history, but I'm happy please y yeah, I

648
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 10: mean so, I mean, I'll go as deep as I know,

649
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 10: because you know, there are people around I can also

650
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 10: shut out who have been part of the legacy of

651
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 10: and Shaw. But the market actually started in Lamur Park

652
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,800
Speaker 10: I think in two I mean twenty years ago. Somebody

653
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 10: do the math for me. Two thousand and five, ye.

654
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, two thousand and five.

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Speaker 10: So it actually started in Lamurt Park in front of

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Speaker 10: Vision Theater. It was there for a few years before

657
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 10: it relocated to the Baldwin Host Cranshaw Plaza, and so

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Speaker 10: that's kind of where it really got its footings as

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Speaker 10: a farmer's market. We were there for over a decade

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Speaker 10: and kind of that's where the market like really grew

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Speaker 10: into what it is today. A lot of the farmers

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Speaker 10: and the food vendors who are still at the market

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Speaker 10: started with us. I don't know if they started with

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Speaker 10: us when we're in Lamart Park. I'll have to check

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Speaker 10: with some of the vendors there, but they have been

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Speaker 10: with us pretty much since the beginning.

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Speaker 6: And for me, that really.

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Speaker 10: Shows the community aspect of it, of the farmers market

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Speaker 10: and just really how important it is.

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Speaker 6: I guess too, I don't know.

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Speaker 10: I guess it's just I guess it just shows how

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Speaker 10: amazing the farmer's market is in my mind, because like

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Speaker 10: it really because once you're like there and you'll be

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Speaker 10: come a staple, like you just become a part of

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Speaker 10: the community and so people look forward to seeing you.

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Speaker 10: But also like there's so many other aspects, you know,

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Speaker 10: in terms of like your business, like people get used

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Speaker 10: to like seeing you every week and like actually local

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Speaker 10: economy like coming back to that, and so there's just

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Speaker 10: so many reasons, and I really want to kind of

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Speaker 10: talk to the folks like what kept.

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Speaker 6: You here for so long?

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Speaker 10: Like obviously, like I know, like building like a vibe

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Speaker 10: and a community and a gathering space, and so it's

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Speaker 10: just it's amazing to have so many vendors who have

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Speaker 10: been there for so long.

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Speaker 9: That's funny that you said that, because I actually did

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Speaker 9: talk to one of our vendors that I was like,

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Speaker 9: you've been here for a while, And what he told

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Speaker 9: me specifically was he actually really just loves the community.

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Speaker 9: He we were talking. This is around the time Little

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Speaker 9: Tokyo was opening, and he was like asking me about

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Speaker 9: having the company he works for like sign up for

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Speaker 9: a Little Tokyo too, And I was like, oh, no,

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Speaker 9: you can't leave me. And he was like, actually, I

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Speaker 9: would never leave this community like this is my home.

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Speaker 9: Like those are his exact words, where this is my home.

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Speaker 9: A lot of our vendors feel that the Crenchhaw Farmers

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Speaker 9: Market is their home.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I love to share that, and so I think,

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Speaker 10: like most importantly, like I guess to get to the

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Speaker 10: point like there are not a lot of farmers' markets

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Speaker 10: in South Ula, especially in the Crenshaw area, and so

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Speaker 10: to be able to serve like this space for twenty

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Speaker 10: years has been is really critical and to be able

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Speaker 10: to celebrate that is really amazing. And a lot of

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Speaker 10: the farmers that are with us have been with us

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Speaker 10: for just as long, and so to be able to

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Speaker 10: continue that legacy hopefully and to serve the community in

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Speaker 10: this way is something that I'm so thankful that we're

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Speaker 10: able to celebrate, and I'm looking forward to kind of

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Speaker 10: seeing how else we can help the different types of

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Speaker 10: communities that are out there in the different ways that

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Speaker 10: they need. And so now that we're kind of in

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Speaker 10: our new space, we move from Baldwin Hills to Crenshaw

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Speaker 10: and Slawson, which you know, we're still building up that

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Speaker 10: space and much as smaller space, and so there are

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Speaker 10: challenges in that in that space, and we hear all

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Speaker 10: that hear the community out there and what those challenges

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Speaker 10: are a lot of it has to do with parking,

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Speaker 10: A lot of it. I mean, there are a lot

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Speaker 10: of challenges when you move, especially into a smaller space,

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Speaker 10: and especially into the place that you weren't before, and

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Speaker 10: so we're looking forward to, I guess, figuring that out

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Speaker 10: and seeing how we can better serve the people who

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Speaker 10: are in that area, especially as they continues to like

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Speaker 10: rapidly change, And so that for me is going to

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Speaker 10: be I guess the next episode of the Crenshaw Farmers Market.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, this has been a very titillating conversation

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Speaker 3: and I learned some things that hope by audience as well.

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Speaker 3: Did I miss anything that you guys going to take

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Speaker 3: the moment to highlight elucidate our audience with?

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Speaker 8: Oh goodness, I do feel like we can talk about

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Speaker 8: things for hours and hours. But I think, you know

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Speaker 8: something that Summer brought to my mind while she was talking.

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Speaker 8: It's just like that resiliency of the farmers that we

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Speaker 8: just talked about.

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Speaker 1: The routes that close.

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Speaker 8: But our farmers have been there the whole time, and

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Speaker 8: through COVID and through ups and downs, and they're still

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Speaker 8: showing up. So I think it's just like it's such

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Speaker 8: a celebration of all of that. You know, they are

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Speaker 8: really the backbone of what makes our farmers market, and

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Speaker 8: these two ladies also make it happen every week. But

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Speaker 8: we hope Averredady comes out comes and celebrates with us.

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Speaker 1: Again, what's happening and what time does it start?

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Speaker 9: It starts at ten am. The market will be open

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Speaker 9: ten am to three pm on Saturday, September twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: And where is this going to be?

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Speaker 10: Absolutely so address is fifty seven thirty Crenshaw Boulevard. We

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Speaker 10: are located right next to US Bank and at the

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Speaker 10: firehouse fifty four parking lot.

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Speaker 8: I was just going to say parking is there are

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Speaker 8: parking options?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so parking is one of the biggest challenges. But

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Speaker 10: this is LA so we all know that. So yeah,

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Speaker 10: there is parking, just not a US Bank please. That

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Speaker 10: is reserved for Usbank customers and in the back for

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Speaker 10: our vendors. But we do have parking lot that is

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Speaker 10: behind the market. It is a free parking situation and

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Speaker 10: we were working on getting some other parking secured and

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Speaker 10: so please check out our instagram for updates on that

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Speaker 10: because we're keeping our fingers crossed that we have secured

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Speaker 10: extra lot, but that.

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Speaker 6: Is not confirmed.

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Speaker 10: But if it isn't, we do have a lot that

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Speaker 10: is free and there will be street parking, So we

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Speaker 10: hope that doesn't deter you from coming out because it's

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Speaker 10: really going to be a really great celebration with lots

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Speaker 10: of activities, music, art, and most importantly food and farmers

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Speaker 10: from our vendors who have been there and they really

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Speaker 10: really need your support. That is, Like, I think one

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Speaker 10: thing that we didn't really drive home is that farmers' markets,

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Speaker 10: especially like right now, I think, you know, with everything

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Speaker 10: that's kind of going on, if we want to call

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Speaker 10: it what it is, we can't, you know, but you know,

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Speaker 10: with the with the big ugly bill with you know

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Speaker 10: whatever whatever his name is, you know.

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Speaker 6: FDT, all that good stuff.

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Speaker 10: Sorry, things are being you know, more affected more than ever,

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Speaker 10: and we don't know how that's gonna affect our markets.

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Speaker 10: So it's gonna be it's gonna be critical more than

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Speaker 10: ever for you guys to come out and support the farmers'

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Speaker 10: markets because that not only that supports the farmers, the

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Speaker 10: vocal vendors who are small businesses. We talked a lot

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Speaker 10: about the farmers, which obviously we're farmers market, but a

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Speaker 10: critical aspect of a farmer's market is also are food

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Speaker 10: vendors who are small business owners in the communities that

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Speaker 10: they serve to, and those are people who are also

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Speaker 10: being affected and so they also need your support, and

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Speaker 10: so the biggest way to do that is to show

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Speaker 10: up every week to the market. And so that's what

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Speaker 10: we're really really hoping, not just on the twenty seventh,

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Speaker 10: but consistently is what we hope to do. And we

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Speaker 10: hope to do that by just continuously providing you know,

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Speaker 10: quality vendors, farmers, programming and resources. And we're always have

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Speaker 10: an open ear to what you guys need and we

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Speaker 10: are there every week to listen, so we hope that

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Speaker 10: you guys show up.

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Speaker 1: Also, is the transportation line running as well?

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Speaker 6: Yes, the transportation line is running.

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Speaker 3: If you want to utilize the transportation instead of worried

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Speaker 3: about parking, you can avail yourself to that as well.

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Speaker 10: So yes, and it's the metro k line. Hyde Park

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Speaker 10: station a slash Nipsey Hustle station is the exit and

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Speaker 10: we are right across the street.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is it.

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Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing you on the twenty seventh

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Speaker 3: of September, which is a Saturday at the market and

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Speaker 3: to see what's really going on and how an impact

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Speaker 3: of our community is so important. What they say is,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's no such thing as a good community,

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Speaker 3: like a connected community. And with that note, I thank

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Speaker 3: you all for listening.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you for having us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much to Laura, Ashley Suburb

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Speaker 3: and Jennifer for their time. If you're in the Los

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Speaker 3: Angeles area, make sure to check out the twentieth year

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Speaker 3: anniversary of the Printshaw Farmers Market is coming Saturday, September

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Speaker 3: twenty seventh. The event will be at fifty seven thirty

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Speaker 3: Princeshaw Boulevard. And of course, thank you all for listening

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Speaker 3: to another episode of Wiedion House. If you have a

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Speaker 3: Until then, may we meet again in the light of understanding.

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Speaker 10: Yeahm