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March 19, 2024 6 mins
En este episodio conocemos un poco mas sobre
Homegrown Hillsborough, una iniciativa comunitaria para educar e involucrar a los residentes en su sistema alimentario local, la producción, distribución, comercialización, acceso y consumo de alimentos. 
Para participar de la encuesta puedes visitar este enlace Homegrown Hillsborough
 
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(00:00):
This is very interesting. You knewthat in Hishborg County there are dozens of
companies that live exclusively from local agricultureand have at twenty these products, for
example vegetable meats, some ingredients andso on, all local products. And
now the county needs our help todefine how to get these foods to our
house. In this conversation with VictorBerrios of Heirshborro County, we talked about

(00:23):
how to participate in an important pollso that our voices are heard knows what
local entrepreneurs do. Conversations with Communityleaders Tampa Connection only by Ihard Gredier with
us, Victor Berrios, to explaina little more about this opportunity that have
county residents to know their needs andalso their customs and participate in this Home

(00:47):
Grone program. Welcome Victor, thankyou so much for having us and informing
our Hispanic communities in Hells Broag County. This is Home Groum Healsburg. It
is an initiative such as where residentsare asked to complete a survey to help
us create programs and projects in ourfood system. In this case we want

(01:10):
the participation of our Hispanic residents withinthe county. As you know here,
in the county is two Boro manyfoods are produced such as blueberries, honey,
strawberry peppers and even cattle. Theseare distributed nationally and we want to
know, as a Hispanic community,what projects our county would like to have

(01:32):
in order to help and educate andinvolve our Hispanic communities. It' s
amazing to know about everything it producesand even Maidi exports our Heichborn county.
I guess a lot of families don' t know that. Yes, our
county is rich in local food andwe want our Hispanic brothers, who come
from our countries with different kinds ofcultures, for example, many of us

(01:53):
grow in our orchards the food webring to the table. And that'
s why we want you to havethis survey from Home Ground HILLSBOROAG. You
can find it at Home Ground hellsBroap Com. And they are very simple
questions, for example, how manytimes you go to the supermarket. We
want to know whether there is foodinsufficiency within your Community. We also want

(02:15):
to take these foods to communities wherefood does not come from our fields.
We also want our children to getinvolved and also educate themselves with programs of
our food system that problem promote,I must say, a healthy lifestyle.
So take part in this survey rightnow. We need, your opinion visits

(02:35):
home Grom Hillsbroap com to help ourHispanic residents, who in the future can
be part of this system and thisagricultural production in Hillsburg County and who,
as you well indicated, is avictor. In other words, this is
not limited, for example, ifwe know that the area of Plan Cigrie,
because yes, the strawberry is wellfamous that area, truth, with
this type of crops, but alsoindicates many people that, because it has

(02:59):
its own orchards s s NS.For those people this survey means what this
is. What it means is thatour county extension services office, is Osboro,
wants to create projects that can help, educate our future communities within the
county. And that' s whywe want to know what you want to
see inside our county, in termsof agricultural production, in terms of how

(03:23):
our own food is grown in ourcounty and, similarly, how you recover
these solid waste. Many of usalso make compost to grow, also to
ferment or I must say, toproduce plants within our orchards. So if

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you do all this kind of stuff. We want to know what you want
to see in our county, withinour food system. So I' m
in. It is important that ourHispanic brothers participate in all the surveys in
our counties. We want our voicesto be heard and our communities, Hispanic
communities, to be able to participatein all these programs offered by the county

(04:04):
exactly and well. Precisely to participate. Where our people can go and also
see these questions in Spanish entirely inSpanish. It' s gonna take a
few, maybe five to ten minutesto complete. It' s a very
important survey for our Hispanic brothers.So visit Home Grown hillsbro Com so you
can fill out this survey completely inSpanish or you can also visit our revamped

(04:28):
and redesigned by such hfl g GBso that you can fill out this survey.
Search there Home Ground Helsbroak Com andyou can complete this survey of our
local food system quickly and help ourcommunities. Victor even when people have to
fill out this survey and if theycan share it truth with people who have

(04:53):
to be residents of Heisborro County,people must only be residents of Hellsburg County
to be able to participate in thissurvey and share it with all their friends
and family, so that we canhave this information and in this way we
can create programs designed for our communitiesspecifically and what are the needs our communities
have? So go right now toHome Grown Healsbroak com that in Spanish what

(05:16):
it means is harvested at home.We want our products and our Hispanic brothers
to be able to also grow productswithin our county and thus bring food to
their table. This form started lastyear. We' ve spread it all
this year. We didn' thave much Hispanic participation in this survey.

(05:38):
That' s why we' reextending it, so you have until the
end of this year to fill outthe survey. Do it right now.
It won' t take long.We want to know what your opinion is
and what programs and projects you wantto see within the county. Hillsboroag excellent
victor as always a pleasure to haveyou here on the romba something else you

(05:59):
want to add about the one ofthis opportunity. You mentioned that they are
cows surveys that have throughout the yearto motivate our people to participate. This
is not the case on social mediaas well. If you have any questions,
you can write them in Spanish.We have representatives who can answer these
questions about any service we offer inHilsburg County. Well, well, excellent.
Thank you, Victor again for thislittle while and also share all that

(06:23):
information about this survey for everyone herein hisch Burro County. And well,
if you want to participate in thisprocess, you know that the description of
this podcast is on the direct linkfor this Hisburg County hun Ground program.
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