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Ruth Baum Bigus
Welcome to KC Cares, Kansas City’s nonprofit voice. We’re telling the stories of Kansas City nonprofits and the people behind them. KC Cares is the intersection of the nonprofit and profit communities making Kansas City a better place to live, work and play this. KC Care segment is brought to you by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. WW W.K. Coffman Dawg I’m respon biggest across the country.

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Ruth Baum Bigus
Many folks think of the Midwest as the nation’s breadbasket with plenty of food for all. Yet here in the metro area, there are many folks who face food insecurity and many urban neighbors that are defined as living in food deserts where it’s difficult to buy affordable or good quality food. That means children, families, as well as seniors can’t get fresh fruit, vegetables and other wholesome foods.

00:00:54:29 – 00:01:21:17
Ruth Baum Bigus
The situation often leads to folks eating fast food and other cheaper items that lack nutritional value. These food deserts have bothered Anthony Neely, and together with his wife Star, the couple has been working hard to change the situation through their nonprofit Local One Urban farming. They have been hard at work creating their own Garden of Eden throughout the community, reclaiming land and growing produce and making a change.

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Ruth Baum Bigus
And Anthony is with us today. It’s so great to have you all here.

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Anthony Nealy
My pleasure, Ruth. Yeah, yes. Appreciate your happiness. On a day.

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Ruth Baum Bigus
You have a very personal story to tell. I would love for you to go back and share where this whole idea really came from.

00:01:39:15 – 00:02:06:03
Anthony Nealy
Well, I. I just turned 63, and I grew up in Detroit. And in the sixties, practically everyone had a garden in the sixties and seventies. And my mom and dad moved us into our home after the 68 riot and moved us and mortgaged a new nice home with two extra locks. And I had a first time I had a tree house in our apple tree.

00:02:06:14 – 00:02:25:20
Anthony Nealy
And around 72, my mother looked at our yard. She said, Oh, we’re putting the garden in here. So I was the only son I have had older sister with six years apart. But at that time I was about 12, 13 years old and I had to learn how to clear that grass and level and and start putting my mother’s gardening in.

00:02:25:20 – 00:02:48:20
Anthony Nealy
So we did that for about 23, almost 30 years in Detroit. And and so I had natural skills from doing that for so long of of organic growing with the cow manure and we grew out our vegetable. She would she would blanch it, freeze and put the dates on our vegetables for the winter. She would put them in the freezer.

00:02:48:20 – 00:03:10:11
Anthony Nealy
So when Christmas came, we would be eating on our own green beans and and collard greens and she would put up squash and and freeze different things. And so I got married here. I came here, relocated in and met my wife. And we worked together. 1984, Brian and I proposed there, came back we got married in 2009 on Valentine’s Day.

00:03:10:11 – 00:03:26:06
Anthony Nealy
So our anniversary just passed. The other day had been 14 years now. And, and when we got to the first home she was in, she had a little garden in the backyard. And I was like, Oh, you little cute little tomato plants. I said, I know how to put in a garden because we had never talked about that.

00:03:26:06 – 00:03:47:00
Anthony Nealy
She was like, You did. I said, I want to go garden. And I said, Let’s find another house and and well, we move, I’ll put our garden here. So we ended up moving in and by 2010 I started putting our garden in and then our neighbor, we had a senior citizen next door. Her mother was and we asked her mother was, would you like a garden after she saw?

00:03:47:00 – 00:04:15:02
Anthony Nealy
And she said, Yeah, sure. So we had to put a garden in her yard and then we had a, a pastor church that we had joined and we offered a gift to them. So that was our third garden. I may have an acre. We started putting a garden in as a gift for our church. And, and so our tax person at the time was telling us he was like, well, we can get some of your money back because we were giving away food.

00:04:15:02 – 00:04:34:07
Anthony Nealy
And, you know, we buy two or 300 tomato plants, a plant and and our our tax person was like, well, we could retrieve some of that because you spending your money on it. And so he he retrieved some of it, but he said, well, you’re not going to always get your money back right when you do it. And this person said you should be a nonprofit.

00:04:34:07 – 00:04:59:04
Anthony Nealy
So he encouraged us to create this nonprofit and become a 5 to 1 three. So we went through the steps and we did and we’ve been established now going on almost eight years and we have four board members. And so we ended up having a blessing from one of the schools here, Dr. Pope, over a prayer. She saw what we was doing.

00:04:59:04 – 00:05:17:25
Anthony Nealy
She was like, well, you guys, we have a greenhouse here. Would you like to come over and see our greenhouse and maybe teach the kids? So we started going our son was going to that school at the time, and it was a middle school and it was called the George Washington Carver Greenhouse. So, oh, that’s where we practice and learn out of Germany and and produce our own plants.

00:05:17:25 – 00:05:44:25
Anthony Nealy
So we started producing 5000 tomato plants and bell pepper plants and stuff. And really and so it was a gentleman at city market, a local businessman. So heirloom tomatoes and plants. His name is a Fred mercenary, him and his wife. And and he would ask me one year he said, What are you doing? When I used to make the place because I got it to need about 500 plants, he said, Well, you know, you need to learn how to germinate.

00:05:44:25 – 00:06:04:29
Anthony Nealy
So if you come up to our farm and say, Joe, we’ll teach you in about three, 4 hours, almost 20 years of germination. And we went up and he told us and so my wife and I, we produce all of our plants and and currently we we teach at two schools and we are partnerships with the Kauffman School.

00:06:04:29 – 00:06:29:26
Anthony Nealy
We’re actually our son goes he’s 15 year old Kauffman student. They’re going to 11th grade. And we also teach at the KIPP Academy Real Learning Program. And so it’s for for us, you know, after the pandemic and inflation, you know, we’ve really seen how working class people with certain certain levels are still needing food. At the end of the month.

00:06:29:26 – 00:06:36:14
Anthony Nealy
They’re standing in line as single moms with their kids, and they don’t have enough money to make it through the month. So our.

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Ruth Baum Bigus
Whole our whole.

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Anthony Nealy
Purpose was was producing and distributing free to help raise our levels here in Kansas City, Missouri. And and so we are we purchase an acre from land bank. And it’s so happened the zip code is in a USDA food insecurity a zip code. And so they had one grocery store there. They had been there for maybe 50 years.

00:07:02:20 – 00:07:23:22
Anthony Nealy
And he and up close enough, he had financial issues and closes. So that’s not even a grocery store in miles radius of our community garden. So we’ve become to be very essential to produce and food and help with folks when they need them and teaching people that it’s really simple. You know, you can simplify growing. It’s not it’s not really hard.

00:07:23:22 – 00:07:40:17
Anthony Nealy
You know, you just have to you have to have the initiative. So we’re trying to enlighten people that, hey, you know, you can just grow your backyard to grow in a new fabric bags and and once you plant a seed and water it, that’s basically, you know, it’s not a lot of maintenance to it. So I mean, because to be other things, you need to learn.

00:07:40:17 – 00:08:03:04
Anthony Nealy
But we just try to let folks know if you have a backyard, you can grow some of the food that you need, you know, and and so I love doing it. My wife, she grew up loving tomatoes and her grandmother worked and retired from our house here. And she said when she was a little girl, she used to tell her, don’t you eat all of these tomatoes we just bought?

00:08:03:04 – 00:08:27:13
Anthony Nealy
And she said she would eat them and then her grandmamma would say, Stick your tongue out, let me see your tongue. And and the acid from it was shown and she ate too many because, you know, you get a little white little acid bone for your tongue. And I thought that was so funny. And and so now we grow a lot of heirloom tomatoes and and and fresh vegetables and leafy stuff and your regular your spinach and your green beans and and and we love doing it.

00:08:27:13 – 00:08:39:07
Anthony Nealy
So, you know, it’s it’s not even work for us. You know, we’ve been doing this almost eight years consistently. We haven’t let a year ago by you know, we don’t grow and give away. So so yeah. That’s global one urban farming. Yes, ma’am.

00:08:40:22 – 00:09:03:08
Ruth Baum Bigus
Well, you make it sound so easy. I’m sure this journey was not that easy. So it really did start from your own growing up and and having a garden all your life and then, you know, kind of paying it forward. What were you doing before this? I mean, you know, I’m sure this takes a lot of your time now, but can you give us a little background of what you were doing before?

00:09:03:08 – 00:09:03:20
Ruth Baum Bigus
And you.

00:09:03:26 – 00:09:35:08
Anthony Nealy
Yeah, I, I love going to a pro computer program in school and making before I relocated here and got state certified. And I ended up doing data entry, medical billing, call center work sales. And in the early nineties when it was really just a started you know it wasn’t a lot of me and call center and data entry work at that time so I was kind it was kind of unique for me and be the first time I was the first in my family to start really delving into computers.

00:09:35:08 – 00:09:59:19
Anthony Nealy
And, and so I did that for years. And my wife, she oh, she started out as building trade when she was 18. She ah well her, her story so unique to, I mean it was amazing when she was well my wife, Star Wars was 16, she was she stayed with her grandmother. Her and her sisters were raised by her grandmother, but she wanted to be independent.

00:09:59:19 – 00:10:24:09
Anthony Nealy
So her grandmother had her do the paperwork to emancipate herself at 16, to be independent. And so they did the paperwork. She went through it and became independent. And moved to a place that helped her go to school and and and housed her and she and I’m going to build a trade school. And in 1819, she was doing bridge work, building, trade, carpentry.

00:10:24:16 – 00:10:55:17
Anthony Nealy
And that’s what she did at 1819. I’ve independence. So so that was that was amazing. And through the years she’s she’s I went back to school for massage therapy. So she’s been a licensed therapist almost 15 years now as well. And, and so the holistic side of that, well, we started learning, you know, of getting more we’re trying to get more away from pharmaceutical healing and into holistic healing and knowing what you should eat to balance out things in your body and stuff, it just became to be amazing to us.

00:10:55:17 – 00:11:30:11
Anthony Nealy
And so it’s become a passion for us. As she still offers our corporate a table chair massages, we’re going to clue that to our community garden actually starting in April and we’re sending it up there. Well, we have a couple of therapies there. They’ll take appointments and be able to offer chair massages here for particular. But, you know, it’s like I mean, I know the medical field is here to help, but the the the holistic side is really if you don’t if you don’t have the initiative to learn yourself, they don’t really teach you because they make so much money off of pharmaceutical you.

00:11:30:11 – 00:11:48:09
Anthony Nealy
They don’t want to tell you, oh, don’t take the information pill, drink some cherry juice. You know, they just and I’ll tell you, they don’t tell you where you like. I didn’t know I have I have a degenerative form of arthritis in my joints, so I’ve had both my joints replaced and both of my shoulders need to be replaced.

00:11:48:09 – 00:12:17:05
Anthony Nealy
And I’m having a knee surgery to replace on my left me actually next month because you know my joints go bone on bone. So what happens is you know, you get inflammation something you can ice it but they give you medicine. But by me marrying a woman who’s who also studied the holistic side of it, I’ve learned that certain things like just putting them aside is on direct joy bones in Lester, Lester blood flow.

00:12:17:05 – 00:12:44:00
Anthony Nealy
And it takes the stiffness out and not the motor. And just a massage, just a deep tissue massage helps that arthritis. So things like that, you know, we like sharing and helping people understand because a lot of people, they just don’t know. They think a massage is a is a thing for, you know, it’s almost like, you know, some extra just some extra social type or extra, you know, just is really is is really needed.

00:12:44:01 – 00:13:02:09
Anthony Nealy
You know, most people can’t afford it, so they have to learn, you know, well, how can I know? How can I’m assassinated? Because, you know, your muscles get to you figure people going their whole life without a mustache and don’t know that the tense muscle, the no flow of of the blood and the muscle, it creates problems. It puts pressure on nerves.

00:13:02:09 – 00:13:23:21
Anthony Nealy
It makes other places hard that you don’t even know is stiff here, but it’s making the right side. I mean, so much stuff is connected to to that. And not knowing that is, you know, people always turn to pharmaceutical, but it’s holistic ways of of helping yourself. And it comes to food and just just something out of me to to to run off, but just something like a Google Earth.

00:13:24:05 – 00:13:35:03
Anthony Nealy
A Google of lettuce. While lettuce spikes three cancers and starts to aging a brain sales who I’ve never nobody’s ever told me that. I mean, you know who says that?

00:13:35:03 – 00:13:36:28
Ruth Baum Bigus
I just I.

00:13:36:28 – 00:13:55:07
Anthony Nealy
Mean, you Google it, they learn it for yourself. But no one no one never makes it, you know. And and so so is is is is really a big thing. And they’re like you were saying, you know, as in in the USDA food insecurity community is, you know, people the less money they have, the cheaper products they buy.

00:13:55:07 – 00:14:13:24
Anthony Nealy
That’s just does just how it goes. And that means that you’re eating less healthier foods and you’re not able to go to Whole Foods and buy the organic stuff. You can’t afford it. You know, you might not be in a for a care except in the end of the end of the month and brussel sprouts and red onions and garlic.

00:14:13:24 – 00:14:23:17
Anthony Nealy
And people just some people can’t if they can’t afford it, you know, and the things that they need to eat. So we we try to help, you know, let people know with some of those things you don’t have to buy, you can grow.

00:14:24:00 – 00:14:40:26
Ruth Baum Bigus
So I love that you have chair massage when people are working in a garden. I would think you might need that. When you’re down in the dirt and you’re toiling and you’re picking and you’re putting in in all kinds of I was going to say manure. I didn’t want to use that. But, you know, you’re fertilizing your fertilizer.

00:14:40:26 – 00:15:03:21
Ruth Baum Bigus
Scott, can you talk a little bit about your growth process to do this? I a lot of nonprofits, you know, say we’ve got this great idea and we’ve started it at X or Y place, but now what do we do? So how did you all kind of maneuver growing urban urban farming?

00:15:04:06 – 00:15:27:11
Anthony Nealy
Well, we were blessed to first have a veteran, a county that we would refer to, 40 year veteran. So he guided us through knowing how to do the paperwork correctly. And then when it came to registering a nonprofit, I mean, some things if you can’t, you should pay for. I mean, you’re not we’re not experts on everything. We are smart, but we’re not experts on everything.

00:15:27:11 – 00:15:46:02
Anthony Nealy
So just this, even though the application for the fiber 1c3 stat is that you have to fill out for the IRS. It’s pretty it’s pretty extensive, you know, so we end up paying a person that had been doing it for years and that was their profession. And and I mean, it was like 600 bucks, but it’s worth it.

00:15:46:02 – 00:16:11:22
Anthony Nealy
I mean, you know, we didn’t have to worry about the paperwork. We got approved in less than 90 days because if you put an application wrong, they sent it back, you know, it could prolong you getting your final C3 status. So if you can’t, it’s best to to give people or your team or to be able to pay for the service for that and and once we got approved, we we started trying to get folks to help us with grants and all that.

00:16:11:22 – 00:16:44:18
Anthony Nealy
But the more you can learn yourself, the better. The more you can study and understand. The proper way to do your grants is fine. I mean, this is good. It’s good to have people with seniority to help you. But, you know, you should you should have a good understanding of it yourself. And and and so we we went from there and and I ended up working I was doing temp service for me and I ended up working at Unite Services here and helping folks a day and take applications for help for their rent and utility bills.

00:16:44:28 – 00:17:02:13
Anthony Nealy
And I ended up meeting a grant writer for that organization, and he took a liking to us and he looked at what we were doing. And about five years ago and he was like, listen, I’m about to retire. I’ll bring you all as a project when I finish. I want to help you guys show you how to show you how to do your grants, and I’ll help you the first year, too.

00:17:02:13 – 00:17:28:02
Anthony Nealy
So, you know, you have to you go through your he accounts here in Missouri, only four board members. So, you know, you get your board members, you get your application for you for one seat three are submitted. You got to have your you got to set your mission statement up, your purpose of your company, all that should be on paper and most people don’t know you should set your first year to budget up on spreadsheets.

00:17:28:02 – 00:17:45:12
Anthony Nealy
You shouldn’t even hesitate. You know anything that you need, put it on the line, put it on your mind, what you’re going to need, you know. And and once you set that up, you kind of can get help from me because there’s a lot of professionals out. And once you get your basic going and if you got a passion for the you know, you just don’t stop.

00:17:45:12 – 00:17:49:01
Anthony Nealy
You know, you just you just you continue till you get it right.

00:17:49:01 – 00:17:52:27
Ruth Baum Bigus
So how many gardens do you have now?

00:17:53:15 – 00:18:33:11
Anthony Nealy
We are we currently have a home garden in a greenhouse and then we have a 20 by 50 greenhouse on an acre owned by our neighbors associates. So currently we have the two gardens and the garden and via our neighbor association is about 46,000 square feet. So we’re a couple of thousand feet over acre. And and so we grew on there and we’ve had these community gardeners partners and you and K.C. and rockers, they’ve came out and help and we’ve put all our grow boxes in and and had help with our greenhouses 20 by 50, green house, hoop house.

00:18:33:11 – 00:18:57:22
Anthony Nealy
And and so, you know, we grow on the ground. We plow until and actually spring is in here now because once you get into April, if you can look ahead two or three weeks without don’t see any frost at night, you can start planning. So April is when you start going outside in the ground you know and and put your CS in and some in your plants and stuff all seeds can go on the ground just about in April.

00:18:58:00 – 00:19:01:27
Anthony Nealy
And so yeah. So we are we getting ready for that again this year?

00:19:01:27 – 00:19:09:26
Ruth Baum Bigus
So who’s the manpower and the woman power? Is it just you and start or are we helpers?

00:19:09:26 – 00:19:44:14
Anthony Nealy
Well, we have we got four board members, but we’ve got blessed to have great partnerships, like I said, with you and KC and they come out in the spring, they bring about 20 folks, 20 volunteers are students, and they come on and help. When we start planning and needing work done and move a sort of self around and then Rockhurst also have coming to us for a partnership and now we’re setting up what is our new program, which is Kassie Community, which is global one urban farming community garden youth jobs program.

00:19:44:14 – 00:20:04:16
Anthony Nealy
So we’re going to start giving we’re going to start giving the high schoolers that we work with a chance to come work and learn and get a stipend check for coming to work at Community Garden. So we’re getting more help now. Me and my wife used to try and do everything and we really realized when you started and you know, it’s a lot like a two acre.

00:20:04:16 – 00:20:17:07
Anthony Nealy
You get like you can’t do everything yourself. So we’re a we’re getting blessed to if you get volunteer help. And then like I said, we’re going to start the new job program this spring and paying our high schoolers to come work work at the community garden.

00:20:17:07 – 00:20:43:10
Ruth Baum Bigus
So smart. Mayor, we’re talking with Anthony Neeley. He is the co-founder of Global One Urban Farming. They’re hard at work trying to change the situation in our own community with urban deserts and really helping folks who may face food insecurity, get nutritional food using their own kind of labor or the the help from others. Did I did I sum it up pretty well help from other folks, too?

00:20:43:20 – 00:20:59:10
Anthony Nealy
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The community, they love coming out with the kids and folks like to come and learn. And like I said, we distribute the food free. So we all we always sell the products, everything we grow, we, we we distribute free. They help the community. So yeah, it’s fun.

00:21:00:26 – 00:21:09:07
Ruth Baum Bigus
Now when you do distribution, is it as food is ready or do you have like certain days of the week or times of the month that you make it available?

00:21:09:13 – 00:21:22:06
Anthony Nealy
Yes, according to the harvest time, whatever the product is. And and we have folks come out on Saturdays and food a week and it’s said days up and they can come on and pick up vegetables. So yeah, we have a fun with that.

00:21:23:07 – 00:21:32:06
Ruth Baum Bigus
What has been the greatest challenge as you’ve built this organization from your own backyard to where you are today?

00:21:33:19 – 00:21:59:20
Anthony Nealy
Well, at first it was finding the land. You know, you do have some issues dealing with dealing with the county and city and trying to purchase large amounts of land. I mean, you can get smaller lots and stuff. But what we came to find out is once you start growing, you really want to help people. You run out of space quick.

00:21:59:28 – 00:22:18:16
Anthony Nealy
You know, you can have a lot next door to your house. And once you fill that up, you look up and well, I want to parent some more but don’t have any more room. So getting them out to about a room, we’re trying to look for another acre now and purchase to it to be able to produce more.

00:22:18:16 – 00:22:44:14
Anthony Nealy
So getting the land first, finding your A location first. If, if, if, if you don’t have it and and secondly, it probably would just be the grant writing because mountains out of ten most people he’s trying to grow they kind of already know how to grow. If they trying to start a nonprofit, most people don’t start. And when you’ve talked about gardening, you probably have some skills in gardening.

00:22:44:14 – 00:23:02:07
Anthony Nealy
So that’s not a problem. But the other the other thing is learning how to do the grants and getting to the right category so you can get grant approval. And and so because, you know, you start off, you spend a lot of your personal money, you know, trying to trying to get established. And that’s what we were going through.

00:23:02:07 – 00:23:24:21
Anthony Nealy
My wife was at Ford Motor Company at that time, and I was doing counseling at work. And and yeah, we we use our money a lot of through the years buying everything and and so getting funded, making sure if you could possibly find a good grant writer straight off of the soon as you’re getting started, get somebody to show you how to do grants and try to get some grants approved at first year two.

00:23:24:21 – 00:23:30:05
Anthony Nealy
And so you can have some funding for what you want to do. You know.

00:23:30:05 – 00:23:40:00
Ruth Baum Bigus
So that’s a great Segway because I know that you guys do some fundraising and you have some fun things coming up. Can you talk a little bit about the kind of events you do to help?

00:23:40:13 – 00:24:02:28
Anthony Nealy
Yeah, yeah. We are where you start when you have a nonprofit and you get grant funding and donations, you still expected to devise a way or create a way to create your own revenue, some type of you know, some people say, okay, some people, you know, make things and give away and and if you find ways to to try and make some money.

00:24:02:28 – 00:24:29:22
Anthony Nealy
So we are we have started our fundraisers this year. They got approved through the downtown City Hall Tourism Department, and they had us in a meeting and like what we were about to do. And I was raised as a drummer and my dad was a jazz drummer, and he paid off the sticks down to me and sent me to private school back then, and I had to learn how to read and play.

00:24:29:22 – 00:24:49:09
Anthony Nealy
And I played the Kettle Drums and Tiffany’s and and I was playing a jazz bass line. I couldn’t even I wasn’t old enough to even buy liquor, but I was like 18 playing in bands and stuff. And, and so I figured, I said, Well, let’s offer some entertainment for our fundraisers. And we’ve kind of put on what is called jazz in the garden.

00:24:49:24 – 00:25:12:18
Anthony Nealy
And so we’re going to still have a lot of jazz bands playing local recording artist playing at our fundraisers. And we’re going to offer a, of course, Kansas City barbecue. And then my wife is setting up the corporate chair massage just a two minute, 12 minute chair massage. And that’s all going to be our fund raiser to four times a year right now to help raise money for our organization.

00:25:12:18 – 00:25:32:24
Anthony Nealy
Yeah. So we’ll we’ll be posting that is actually on Facebook already and tickets are on sale for the first event which is April 8th. And we started. Yeah, but it’s called Jazz in the garden and the tourist department downtown is supporting us and we’re excited about that. And so that’s our first fund raiser. BE April 8th.

00:25:33:14 – 00:25:37:11
Ruth Baum Bigus
How great. Where’s the best place for people to find out information.

00:25:37:26 – 00:26:04:23
Anthony Nealy
Are on our Facebook page global on our farm on Facebook and we’ve got the tickets on sale through Eventbrite so they can purchase day tickets online or pay at the gate and any questions. The phone numbers are there as well. They can call us if they need anything. So yeah, yeah. So our events are actually we set the date for April 8th, June two, and then will be September 3rd and October 7th.

00:26:04:24 – 00:26:08:10
Anthony Nealy
So all four dates are already set. So we’ll have those out there as well.

00:26:09:18 – 00:26:18:22
Ruth Baum Bigus
You’re doing amazing work. You’re growing what’s what’s the best crop besides volunteers you to figure out how to plant those. Right.

00:26:19:09 – 00:26:45:10
Anthony Nealy
Well, you know, you’d be surprised. Real easy to grow green beans. You plan them, you water, they bush up, you pick them your your bell peppers. You know, those are sturdy, strong plants. You know, some of what you put your favorite plants in there, no major storm and and then early spring you do your leafy stuff but your your leafy stuff there’s really no maintenance to them.

00:26:45:10 – 00:27:04:21
Anthony Nealy
Your spinach, your frugal love, your cabbage, your mustard greens, your collard greens, your Swiss chard. I mean, is really if you got a sunny area once you planted the water and gave good Mother Nature takes care of the ridge, all you got to do is keep it watered.

00:27:04:21 – 00:27:13:06
Ruth Baum Bigus
And you build you build it up as opposed to down where some of our little friendly, fuzzy friends can get to it easily. Right?

00:27:13:06 – 00:27:37:24
Anthony Nealy
Yeah. Yeah. We haven’t had too many problems with small m we had a couple of, we had like three beers recently. So we’re fencing in the fence and fencing in the acre and but I mean, you know, you don’t have too many problems with animals. There’s some stuff you can you can put around your plants, actually determine certain herbs and stuff and and depending upon it is a can or a we women haven’t had any problem.

00:27:37:24 – 00:27:42:02
Anthony Nealy
I’ve never had problems with with critters here.

00:27:42:02 – 00:27:49:25
Ruth Baum Bigus
Well, that’s a good thing. I know a lot of people who complain about that, but you must have the magic mojo. Just keep them.

00:27:49:25 – 00:27:52:06
Anthony Nealy
Away. Yeah.

00:27:52:06 – 00:27:59:14
Ruth Baum Bigus
We want to tell our audience it’s global urban farming and its website is global one.

00:27:59:27 – 00:28:06:14
Anthony Nealy
Urban farming. And that’s global one urban farming dot org.

00:28:07:05 – 00:28:09:04
Ruth Baum Bigus
Perfect. And can you use volunteers?

00:28:09:16 – 00:28:28:27
Anthony Nealy
Yes. Yes, definitely. Anyone contact us? Well, let them know. The days of time is going to be a lo this next few weeks going into March, you know. So I’ll get to be a rainy season. And but do you figure going into April we’ll start doing a lot of outdoor planning and tilling and plowing. So yeah, this month, March and April.

00:28:29:04 – 00:28:30:18
Anthony Nealy
Yeah, we could definitely use some help.

00:28:31:22 – 00:28:37:26
Ruth Baum Bigus
Lend them a hand. They’re doing great things in our community. Anthony, thank you so much for sharing what you’re all about.

00:28:38:04 – 00:28:41:03
Anthony Nealy
Share, share. Thank you so much. We appreciate you having us.

00:28:41:17 – 00:29:03:14
Ruth Baum Bigus
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