Season 1, Episode 8: 25 May 2022, Dreaming Out Loud, Inc., Urban Farm-Solving Food Apartheid

Today's guest is Christopher Bradshaw, Founder and Executive Director, Dreaming Out Loud,Inc., a Urban Farm based in Washington, DC with a second located scheduled to open in Fall 2022. Founded in 2017, DOL is rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through cooperative social enterprise: increasing access to healthy food, improving community health, supporting entrepreneurs and cooperatives from low-income communities; and creating opportunities for at-risk residents to earn sustainable, family-supporting wages and build wealth. They believe that all communities deserve equal access to fresh, healthy food choices, but that achieving this requires moving beyond the “access” paradigm to a focus on community self-determination and food sovereignty. They are working to create an integrated pipeline to jobs, economic opportunity, and community wealth-building for our most marginalized communities, utilizing the food system as the catalyst. Dreaming out Loud contact information to volunteer or for general information: SM: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, DOLDC email:  [email protected] For volunteer information and other details:  www.DOLDC.org Marcia's SM: Facebook and Instagram:  mbmarshalllee