((PKG)) COMMUNITY FARM
((Banner: Community Farm))
((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest)) ((Map: Purcellville, Virginia))
((NATS))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
I'm so grateful to work here every day. It's so nice. The volunteers that we have are so wonderful and caring and just want to help their community. It's really great to work here.
((NATS: Doing OK? Good, yes. Say hi to Jayden.))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, we host volunteers for all of our planting and harvesting. We also host field trips. So, we like to focus on food education, making sure when kids come out, they are familiar with how the plant grows from seed in our greenhouse and becomes a plant which we transplant out into the field.
((NATS: Do you see that orange one over there? Yeah?))
((Chuck Kuhn, Founder, JK Moving))
You know, I look at giving back or running a business in a community, giving back in the community, not all that different from what we're doing with farming and gardening. You can't just keep taking out of a community. You have to put back. And the community has been great to us as an organization, great customers, great support. And we need to be balanced and we need to be putting back into the community. And the JK Community Farm has given us the ability to give back at the level that we really wanted to give.
((NATS: But these are squash and zucchini plants and we just harvested from them this morning.))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, we want to make sure that kids are aware today with our global food system. It's hard for kids to know exactly where their food is coming from. They know that their parents get it from the grocery store, but they don't know how it gets there. So, you want to connect them to agriculture with their farmers, to see things that they've never seen grow before. Kale, broccoli, they've eaten it, but they've never seen how it grows. And it's great to see them make the connection that everything that they are helping us plant and harvest, will go to families in need. Forty percent of the people that we feed are children. So, it's really nice for them to know that, maybe, some of their classmates are people that they're helping out.
((NATS: Sometimes, she likes to hide. So, if you see a bee with a blue dot on her, that’s the queen.))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, we love having bees on the property. And we were able to find a wonderful beekeeper, George, and he brought the bees on, so that we can grow better in the field, and it helps pollinate things like watermelon and cucumber. They serve a lot of great purposes.
((NATS))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, today alone, we will probably donate around a thousand pounds (453 kg.). This morning, we harvested things like peppers, tomatoes and cabbage. So, as we have more support from the communities in the form of donors and volunteers, we're able to expand and feed more families.
((NATS))
((Banner: Community Farm))
((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry))
((Camera: Mike Burke))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest)) ((Map: Purcellville, Virginia))
((NATS))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
I'm so grateful to work here every day. It's so nice. The volunteers that we have are so wonderful and caring and just want to help their community. It's really great to work here.
((NATS: Doing OK? Good, yes. Say hi to Jayden.))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, we host volunteers for all of our planting and harvesting. We also host field trips. So, we like to focus on food education, making sure when kids come out, they are familiar with how the plant grows from seed in our greenhouse and becomes a plant which we transplant out into the field.
((NATS: Do you see that orange one over there? Yeah?))
((Chuck Kuhn, Founder, JK Moving))
You know, I look at giving back or running a business in a community, giving back in the community, not all that different from what we're doing with farming and gardening. You can't just keep taking out of a community. You have to put back. And the community has been great to us as an organization, great customers, great support. And we need to be balanced and we need to be putting back into the community. And the JK Community Farm has given us the ability to give back at the level that we really wanted to give.
((NATS: But these are squash and zucchini plants and we just harvested from them this morning.))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, we want to make sure that kids are aware today with our global food system. It's hard for kids to know exactly where their food is coming from. They know that their parents get it from the grocery store, but they don't know how it gets there. So, you want to connect them to agriculture with their farmers, to see things that they've never seen grow before. Kale, broccoli, they've eaten it, but they've never seen how it grows. And it's great to see them make the connection that everything that they are helping us plant and harvest, will go to families in need. Forty percent of the people that we feed are children. So, it's really nice for them to know that, maybe, some of their classmates are people that they're helping out.
((NATS: Sometimes, she likes to hide. So, if you see a bee with a blue dot on her, that’s the queen.))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, we love having bees on the property. And we were able to find a wonderful beekeeper, George, and he brought the bees on, so that we can grow better in the field, and it helps pollinate things like watermelon and cucumber. They serve a lot of great purposes.
((NATS))
((Samantha Kuhn, Director, JK Community Farm))
So, today alone, we will probably donate around a thousand pounds (453 kg.). This morning, we harvested things like peppers, tomatoes and cabbage. So, as we have more support from the communities in the form of donors and volunteers, we're able to expand and feed more families.
((NATS))
