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How To Support The Next Generation Of Farmers | This episode is brought to you by Four Sigmatic\nThe average age of a farmer in the United States today is 58 years old. And it\u2019s been projected that about 40% of the continental United States\u2019 farm and ranch acreage will have changed hands between 2015 and 2035. However, young people who are looking to get into farming are unfortunately faced with a number of barriers to entry, including difficulty accessing land, education, and financing. This is why it is so important that we begin to spur business innovation and create policy supports to bring in the next generation of farmers, and innovators in the food system.\nDr. Hyman explored these topics in three conversations he had last year with guests Kimbal Musk, Tobias Peggs, and Danielle Nierenberg.\nKimbal Musk is a chef, restaurateur, and philanthropist. His personal mission is to pursue an America where everyone has access to real food. He\u2019s been named a Global Social Entrepreneur by the World Economic Forum and is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of three businesses\u2014The Kitchen Restaurant Group, Big Green, and Square Roots\u2014with real food missions that are rapidly growing across the US. The Kitchen Restaurant Group (with its three concepts Next Door, Hedge Row, and The Kitchen) serves real food at every price point and has created over a thousand mission-driven jobs. The restaurants source sustainably grown food from American farmers, stimulating the local farm economy to the tune of millions of dollars a year. Kimbal\u2019s nonprofit organization, Big Green, builds permanent, outdoor Learning Garden classrooms in hundreds of underserved schools across America reaching over 350,000 students every day. His tech-enabled food company, Square Roots, builds urban farms in climate-controlled shipping containers with the mission to bring real food to people in cities around the world by empowering next-gen farmers.\xa0\nTobias Peggs is co-founder and CEO of Square Roots, the Brooklyn-based urban farming company known for changing the way people think about growing local food and training the country\u2019s future generations of farmers. Previously, he led Aviary, a mobile photo editing company as its CEO until its acquisition by Adobe, and was also CEO at OneRiot, a social media analytics company, acquired by Walmart. Tobias grew up in England and has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Cardiff University.\xa0\nDanielle Nierenberg co-founded the non-profit Food Tank in 2013 as an organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Prior to starting Food Tank, Danielle spent two years traveling to more than 60 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, meeting with farmers and farmers\u2019 groups, scientists and researchers, policymakers and government leaders, students and academics, along with journalists, documenting what\u2019s working to help alleviate hunger and poverty, while protecting the environment at the same time.\nFind Dr. Hyman\u2019s full-length conversation with Kimbal Musk, \u201cHow To Fix Nutrition In Schools,\u201d here:\xa0 https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/KimbalMusk\nFind Dr. Hyman\u2019s full-length conversation with Tobias Peggs, \u201cWhat Is Hyper-Local Food?\u201d here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/TobiasPeggs\nFind Dr. Hyman\u2019s full-length conversation with Danielle Nierenberg, \u201cHow One Woman is Transforming the Food System,\u201d here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DanielleNierenberg\nThis episode is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic is now providing an exclusive offer for Doctor\u2019s Farmacy listeners. Receive up to 39% off on their best selling Lion\u2019s Mane Coffee bundles. To get this deal, just go to foursigmatic.com/hyman. This is a really incredible deal so it\u2019s the perfect time to branch out from your regular morning cup of coffee and try Four Sigmatic\u2019s mushroom blends to enhance your brain-power, energy, and immunity throughout the day.\xa0\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices