The following is the transcript of Jillian Hishaw being celebrated by Clif Bar as a the food industry changemaker.
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hello my name is Gillian hi Shaw I’m an
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agricultural attorney and founder and
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director of farms farm stands for family
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agriculture resource management services
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my grandfather was the inspiration
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behind finding farms because his
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experience with our family land loss
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than because of that I saw farmers
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struggle for the past 10 plus years I’ve
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been in Ag and environmental law and
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policy I work day to day on writing
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grants fundraising ideas also if the
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farmer has legal concerns then I’ll find
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a lawyer to refer the case to so being a
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minority double x I’m African American
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and then also being a woman you know she
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understands the struggles but what I
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really admire about Gillian is that she
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gathers money to purchase food from
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farmers because this is not a
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billion-dollar industry to give to their
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local pantry you know and I mean that in
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itself just speaks volume you know if I
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wasn’t sweating I probably be crying
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in 13 I started the farms to food bank
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program and basically harvest Hope Food
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Bank was our first first food bank
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partner with the help of Jillian his
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short we can help support the one in
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four children that struggle with hunger
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and over 300,000 people in our local 20
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counties struggle to have a meal of love
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and by her providing the meals it’s a
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tremendous way to feed the local
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community and we paid the farmers to
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grow produce or to sell us their produce
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to the food bank and so the food bank
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was the donor we donated all of the
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produce that we bought from the farmer
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to the food bank and so over the past
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four years we’ve donated over 18,000
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pounds of produce to harvest hopes
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specifically a lot of food banks
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received canned goods for shelf-life
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purposes but some not all but some don’t
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really procure produce as much as the
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canned goods and so part of the
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initiative with the food bank program
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was to make sure that we source only
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fresh produce into the food banks so to
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basically kind of supplement the canned
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goods and so we definitely try to focus
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on procuring the produce and making sure
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that it’s not only going
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food banks but it’s also going directly
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to childcare centers specifically in
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rural areas
