Building a Future with Farmers: Lindsey Lusher Shute at TEDxManhattan 2013

Lindsey Lusher Shute talks about the decades long migration away from the family farm in the United States, and how bringing young people back to farming is critical for the future of food, agriculture and rural places.
Lindsey Lusher Shute is the Executive Director and co-founder of the National Young Farmers' Coalition, (NYFC) a membership-based organization dedicated to the success of the next generation of sustainable farmers in the United States. NYFC's supporter network includes thousands of farmers and consumers from all fifty states, who work together to advocate for change in Federal policy, develop new farm technology through the Farm Hack project and solve local issues through regional NYFC chapters. Lindsey regularly speaks at conferences and meetings across the nation, advocating for practical and policy solutions that will help beginning farmers build independent and sustainable farms. Lindsey and her husband run Hearty Roots Community Farm, a 600-member CSA farm, in the Hudson River Valley. Lindsey's first growing experience was at the Red Shed Community Garden in Brooklyn, which she built from the ground up with neighbors.
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[@JoannWoolley]

Yes, let's get youth learning about farms. Let's make farms sustainable.

[@aymana2j772]

Joann Woolley I want to open farms

[@jamesrmosbeyii1122]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 My wife and I are joining! Just so hard without having experience or the guidance. There's not even a mentor to connect with in our close area.

[@headrushmag]

this is a great ted talk! Thank you Lindsey Lusher Shute!

[@zephyrquartz]

Good for you. Your vision is the hope of the USA.

[@garonaron]

Thank you for all the work you do! In my eyes, Farming is the most honorable and important occupation one can pursue!

[@andersonquinton4967]

InstaBlaster...

[@jamieholland8951]

TED Talks are always so cool and this video is no different.

[@farmermeetsfoodie9342]

Spot on Lindsey!

[@birkebaehr]

This is great! I'll be sharing!

[@jessicam.castillo3078]

Wonderful!!!

[@EZ570]

When the petrodollar collapses, ciaos will commence. Victory gardens are essential for survival in financial stressed times

[@NeilBlanchard]

Who votes this video down? Really? You don't like small farmers?

[@dineshnagwekar3173]

Great thoughts in this video expressed by you! We as a world citizens must respect farming & farmers. Jai Hind! Jai Javan! Jai Kissan!

[@coltonchestnut1959]

almost all oklahooma is farms and i live on a farm in oklahoma

[@shanedooley5948]

the reason there are no young farmers it's the same in Ireland is because the older farmers won't retire an by time it's handed down the next person in line is to old to make it worth while investing money into it as they simply won't get it back or anything out of it for there time there

[@austinhk2829]

Love herr... More farmers needed to keep food organic for a healthy Future... More farmers less lawyers n politicians.... LOL

[@MrSethshapiro]

the more farmers, the better! we need farmers not GMO

[@LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY]

seth shapiro no one’s ever died from genetic modification and infact it’s done a world f good for regions that have difficulty growing “ non GMO” crops in extreme conditions. Look up golden rice. With the exception of examples such as glow fish and spider goats ( these are goats that produce spider silk in their milk) most cases of genetic modification are to acquire traits that could be gained through selective breeding however this takes longer and is not as precise. So really if you think about it all domesticated plants and animals have been “genetically modified” in some way or another.

[@martinneukomm8697]

Some people don't know what they don't know.

[@jaylittle66]

To my Google friends view this Tedx Manhattan video

[@MrSethshapiro]

social soil ?

[@impalapez]

awake and realize the economic terrorism that is taking place, by lack of farm finance

[@TheGrasspond]

The only thing of substance she said was the subsidies that are creating large corporate farms needs to stop. The problem is government policy is against small farms, from absurd regulation to subsidizing larger corporate farms. We need to stop looking for some large government to pay and start doing for ourselves. Like she is doing but at the same time she cries for more govt handouts. All we need the govt to do is level the playing field and get out of the way