our next hero decided to bring healthy food to the rural town of canita, north carolina.e. >> no matter how hard we try to outrun our painful pasts, sometimes it stays with us for a reason. when reverend richard joiner was a child, his father was a sharecropp sharecropper. he worked hard sowing and tilling the land. at harvest time with his family by his side, he was so proud of what he had accomplished. and then the owner would drive up, take everything away and tell him that they had earned nothing. that humiliation caused richard so much pain that he hated that land, and he left. he joined the military and later became a pastor, and his calling led him to cunita, north carolina. he went there to preach. and in one year, he says he presided over 20 funerals and that many of these deaths could have been prevented with healthier food. so richard looked at the land and knew what he had to do. i started the cunita family life center to grow fresh food. and more than 80 young people helped plan, plant and harvest nearly 50,000 pounds of produce for the local families and to