Three broken systems—farming, education, and climate—can be fixed together. At-risk kids, especially those with dyslexia, are pushed out of school. Put them on farms as apprentices learning culinary and agricultural skills. Farmers get help reducing environmental impact and boosting profit. Everyone wins.
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3 big systems that I think are broken. Obviously farming is broken, education is broken, it's a complete disaster, and there are more kids that are being excluded from schools than ever before. And then climate's broken. But has anybody pulled them together and gone, okay, actually they can start fixing each other? With farming being broken, if we get kids that are about to become graffiti artists, can we put them on a farm? Can we teach them VTECs? Can we teach them in a totally different way? It shouldn't be a surprise, but most chefs are dyslexic. They hate They're super creative people and love getting on with stuff, but actually school wasn't their thing. So can we go and find those future chefs, put them on a farm, let them help the farmer, let them learn about food? Then nature starts to recover because the farmer doesn't need to beat the land as hard as he beats the land. So you've got farmer becomes profitable. So what I'm doing is I'm taking all of our kind of corporate restaurant clients and going, let me build this model where you sit in the middle, you work with a farmer, we link in kids that are falling outta school, and nature has a natural recovery.