DENISE O’BRIEN

I have been an organic farmer for forty seven years. During that time my husband and I have sought to live by example, constantly reaching out to our community. We both grew up in the county we currently live. Soil health and food health have gone hand in hand during our farming career. We have adopted farming techniques that are gentle on the land while building the resource that has been gifted to us. I have observed over the past nearly fifty years the correlation between the health of our planet and the health of those who occupy this space. I am appalled with the time and the space we occupy and the negligence that brought us to this point. I am positive about the future, though very worried about how we get there. I hope in my lifetime that I will see a sea change in the way people regard our Mother Earth.