{"id":91114,"date":"2021-10-08T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=91114"},"modified":"2024-06-20T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:31:40","slug":"episode-15-tara-rodriguez-besosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/episode-15-tara-rodriguez-besosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 15: Tara Rodr\u00edguez Besosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/20745920\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does a farming community recover after a disaster? By coming together. Tara Rodr\u00edguez Besosa talks about Puerto Rico\u2019s agricultural and economic situation, including the role that the US plays and, more importantly, the neighbors providing for one another in Puerto Rico\u2019s food system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hear how they started their own food journey when their mother left the city to become a farmer, then sold sprouts they grew in their city apartment at the farmers market, and then started big-picture thinking about how to support farmers on the island with the business that they cofounded, El Departamento de la Comida. In its earliest iteration, El Depa aggregated local produce for a multi-farm CSA, then became the only restaurant in Puerto Rico serving all Puerto Rican-produced foods. El Depa\u2019s transition, after the 2017 hurricanes, into a nonprofit collective has allowed the entity to support farmers and food projects with the facilitation of work brigades, the sharing of tools and knowledge, and now a commercial kitchen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tara offers their knowledge about how each of us can design a resource library for tools, seeds and education in our own farming communities. (Spoiler alert: It starts by asking your fellow land stewards about their needs!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, hear about the OtraCosa queer land collective and what it\u2019s like to reinhabit a home and 8-acre property that\u2019s been abandoned for 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/jones-act-explained-waiving-means-puerto-rico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jones Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/g\/toollibrary\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Tool Library Group<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seedlibraries.groups.io\/g\/main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up Beet! Seed Libraries Forum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldepartamentodelacomida.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Departamento de la Comida website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eldepartamentodelafood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Depa on Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bitchimmanolo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tara Rodr\u00edguez Besosa on Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOBBY FARMS PRESENTS: GROWING GOOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Episode 15: Tara Rodr\u00edguez Besosa - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good with Tara Rodr\u00edguez Besosa! 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