i mean, my first love qith food wap really preparing food and cooking it. i just kind of felt like since food was a relationship i'm gonna have my whole life, and one i check in with 3 times a day, that it'd be good to really kind of explore it deeper. >> and john gets to explore his love f@r food every day, now across 3 1/2 acres of various real crops at the farm. he picks squashes and packs the produce from sunrise to suown and has built a connectiob not only to food but his local community, too. he operates a thriving community supported agriculture business, delivering to homes and offices. in addition, he's struck up relationships with local chefs like tim kilcoyne at the sidecar restaurant in downtown ventura, offering them an outlet to get produce they may not find elsewhere, and offering them advice from a chef's viewpoint. >> something like this? is this what we're looking for? ok, cool. i love to speak to him about, like, what would you like to see next season? and so we can start talking about how we can plan his menu basically from the see catal