Wayne Swanson

You can go out the garage.

And what's diabolical is we forgot what we were.

Right.

Just with that two generations we talking about.

My grandparents and my parents, even me, I'm born in 73.

There wasn't a block I couldn't walk on as a kid that there wasn't some food on the block.

Grapes, pears, apples, pomegranates, something.

And that's all gone.

I remember when I first got to college by the Vine City Station, there used to be a pecan grove.

And the homeless brothers would be down there when it was time and they crack up the pecans, eat the pecans all day.

But food was always prevalent.

But we got to this capitalist piece where we want you to buy everything, everything.

And so the food forests that are coming up now, like the Browns Mill food forest in Atlanta, in Southeast, and just now planting stuff that people can just pick up.

off of a tree or a vine is now coming prevalent.

And I give the city of Atlanta credit.

I have a 501c3 called the Georgia Black-Owned Farm Tours.

And what we do is we take people to visit these farms and we want you there, one, because we want you to buy directly from them.

We want to kind of cut that middleman out of these opportunities.

But also we want people to understand the mechanism of farming is not what's on TV.

It's not pretty.