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The pastor of Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church decided to do something about that. He started the Conetoe Family Life Center, a noNPRofit that enlists dozens of young people to harvest almost 50,000 pounds of food a year. He`s today`s "Character study".
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REV. RICHARD JOYNER, cnn HERO: Conetoe is a community with poverty. It`s a rural area, but also a food desert, that do not have access to fresh, affordable food.
I`ve been a pastor here 12 years.
Early on, I was spending more time in funerals than anything else.
Diabetes, high blood pressure, unhealthy lifestyles, I had to do something.
If you take what you had, God can transform your health situation, your food desert situation.
I could not grow food by myself. So I had to come to the community.
All right. Come on, guys. Who want to do eggplants?
It`s a generational but the children, they`re responsible for planting, cultivating, and also harvesting the food.
One of our goals is to get as much fresh food in the homes as possible. They make the families healthier. It`s a game changer.
This garden has changed our community life. It`s a place where we can produce, a place we can play. It`s a place where we can live.
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AZUZ: "Olive Trees" is a landscape painting by Vincent Van Gogh. It was completed in 1889.
This copy of "Olive Trees" is by Stan Herd. It was completed in 2015. And it`s also a landscape, literally. Stan Herd is an earth works artist and what you`re looking at is his arrangement of plants, soil and mulch, an all natural recreations of the "Olive Trees" picture.
It was commissioned by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and took six months of hard work to complete.
Made for a great story before we Van Gogh. It didn`t take much to con-Vincent us to air. We also plant on something fun and you just never know what`s going to crop up on cnn STUDENT NEWS or how many puns we`ll cultivate.
I`m Carl Azuz and it`s farm me to go.
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