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Wayne Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And so a lot more of us have land.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

than we give ourselves credit for.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Especially when you get outside of I-20 and 285, you get down around Macon, it's a lot of us with land.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

They just not shouting about it.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

I was two or three years too early.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

Most of my businesses are geared towards us.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

We hadn't accepted that yet, the idea of a $13 burger.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

that wasn't quite right.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

They were outside protesting one day like, you got a goddamn $13 burger in this spot.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And I was like, man, I raised a cow.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

It's a $13 burger.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

But so right now what we're doing is there, I'm an investor in a grocery store called Nourish and Bloom.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

It's an autonomous grocery store.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

It's on Cascade, Trillith, and we're opening one in Grady and then another two on the Beltline.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So our product will be in there.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So we'll be able to do onesie, twosie products in there, not the bulk stuff that we normally do.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

But those are coming from these communities we're talking about.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

So as I have relationships in these small rural communities, I'm able to kind of pump dollars into those.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And that's where I can lease more space.

Grits and Eggs Podcast
Episode 115 - Black Farming w/ Wayne Swanson

And we're continuously leasing and growing.