andaud for mitchell, lee's the jasmine nielsen. and then jasmine nielsen. and then he is an author of a number of very amusing and very smart books. andrites for vanity fair his claim to fame is he is the author of this now 10-year-old book, the united states of arugula, david camp. next we have someone who is actually doing the political work in washington dc, and she will tell us more about that, de matina.amin and then the current chair of the department, the professor and chair of the nyu department of food studies, it says public health but it has been moved. nutrition and food studies together again when i belong, dr. christiana ray. some of this, as we have these conversations, there is always a little bit about how i spent my summer vacation. mitchell was in our first graduating class, a phd in the food studies program. he will graduate next thursday at noon. no, i am teasing. among the really interesting and valuable and fun and smart things that mitchell does is he took the food expo for american food to milan for six months. espresso,k a lot of a

please help me welcome jasmine nielsen, executive director of just food.e do not mean only food, we mean food with a sense of social justice. tell us about what that means and what you are doing. >> just food was started 20 years ago by a group of people that were looking at the movement towards sustainable agriculture and the antihunger movement thinking that there should not be parallel lines. we had farms disappearing and we have people in the city were hungry. they convened the first conference the first year and what they eventually hit on was the first thing they did which was csa. community supported agriculture. at the point that just food was founded, there was one csa in new york city. there are now 130 in our network. from the beginning, there was a focus on making sure that was accessible to everyone. regardless of income. csa often involves payment upfront and loans and pay-as-you-go for certain people. we also successfully lobbied to make sure you could use snap benefits or food stamps over -- stands. over time it really evolved to become com

please help me welcome jasmine nielsen, executive director of just food. we do not mean only food, we food --d with -- need food with a sense of social justice. >> just food was started 20 years ago by a group of people that were looking at the movement towards sustainable agriculture and the antihunger movement thinking that there should not be parallel lines. we had farms disappearing and we have people in the city were hungry. they convened the first conference the first year and what they eventually hit on was the first thing they did which was csa. community supported agriculture. at the point that just food was founded, there was one csa in new york city. there are now 130 in our network. from the beginning, there was a focus on making sure that was accessible to everyone. regardless of income. csa often involves payment upfront and loans and pay-as-you-go for certain people. ied too successfully lobb make sure you could use snap benefits or food stamps over time it really evolved to become community given solutions to bringing fresh fruit and neighb

please help me jasmÍn nielsen. >> i'm thinking that those shouldn't be parallel lines. had farms disappearing and we had people in the city who were hungry and they cast around for a while, the very first conference the very first year and what they eventually hit on as the first thing they did with csa, at the point food founded, there was a focus and a whole lot of others in the city. from the very beginning there was a focus on making sure that that was accessible to everyone regardless of income, so you know csa involves payment funds but we encourage revolving loans, pay as you go for certain people and lobbied to make sure you could use snap benefits or food benefits. so we do that in a variety of ways, we support urban farmers and community gardeners and growing for their communities. out of that, they said, now they are growing. we teach people how to teach their neighbors how to grow and out of that, they said, now we are growing enough food that we want to formally sell it and we want to start our own farmer's markets so they told us we had to learn and learne