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AJ Beard

Executive Director of the Texas Center for Local Food and beginning farmer in Smithville, TX.

Oct 8, 2026

19:32
So can you talk about maybe how it got started, why it was necessary for Texas Center for Local Food?
19:39
Yes.
19:39
So as I mentioned, Sue Beckwith was one of the farmers that was working in the Central Texas group of small-scale farmers.
19:45
They were doing organic.
19:46
They were doing regenerative.
19:47
They were producing food that nourished humans, right? And they were struggling to scale up.
19:53
So getting started, going to farmer's markets, selling to neighbors, right? Selling to people they could talk to one-on-one was great.

7 MINS LATER

26:49
Yes, no. CSA, tell me what that
62:17
So can you talk about maybe how it got started, why it was necessary for Texas Center for Local Food?
62:24
Yes.
62:25
So as I mentioned, Sue Beckwith was one of the farmers that was working in the Central Texas group of small-scale farmers.
62:30
They were doing organic, they were doing regenerative, they were producing food that nourished humans, right? And they were struggling to scale up.
62:38
So getting started, going to farmer's markets, selling to neighbors, right? Selling to people they could talk to one-on-one was great.
62:45
And that's important.
62:46
So everyone listening, definitely go support your local farmer through a farmer's market or a farm share box or something like that.

7 MINS LATER

69:35
No. CSA, tell me what that

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