ninety six dollars a month on what previously could have been eaten food so that is a justice issue we shouldn't be wasting that much food and in a world where we have abundance but there are also people still going hungry we don't need any magical or new technology to keep us from getting to zero waste we can get there now it's just about the will of the people one thing that we wanted to learn more about was where food comes from so many and explain the cycle of food production a lot of our food kind of is grown in really large scale farms is processed is put in big supermarkets is hopefully eaten any food scraps are put in the landfill or incinerator in an ideal situation our food is grown from local farms sold and either local small markets or farmers markets people take the home cooked the food compost their food scraps and then that dirt becomes our food again it goes back to these local farms and is used to nourish the soil to grow good local healthy food and local food as you don't have to transport it as far so it last longer usually taste better you live better nutrients in it so from those airways perspective i think food justice depends a lot on making sure that everyone has access to that locally grown food and everyone has access to be able to compost their their food scraps everyone being able to have a space to grow food if they want to i think is also really important in terms of food justice i think i have a lot of hope and there's a lot of really great people doing a lot of great work in the world and i think there's going to be some powerful social movements that will change the way we're work consuming and even eating and driving and all that kind of stuff right now i have to hold out hope what we're learning is that there's a historical trauma that my father was part of the last generation of the sort of program of the united states pretty much convinced mexico to send immigrants to come work the fields  so that the trauma that my father experience is why i exist meaning that that was his way to stabilise citizenship and that's why i was  what the future looks like is going to be this after visiting tamales a b c collectors we went to another place called project sweetie pie projects we do pod the goal is to teach you some business skills to create a greener north minneapolis spoke with one of the organizers michael chaney who introduced us to some of the youth and other partners that work in the gardens now that's good well project sweetie pie we're a training program for youth in horticulture entrepreneurship marketing and promotions so project free pass i is really about making a greener north minneapolis we hear all this rhetoric that it takes a village to raise a child so we came up with projects we did buy as a model that we could demonstrate to the world how our community came together to support the youth of its community this very spot in nineteen forty's fifty's and sixt was the epicenter of north minneapolis there were businesses up and down this street and then during the riots in nineteen sixty seven those buildings were burned down in many people left and we had vacant lots of up and down north minneapolis here to grow food of course takes land on north minneapolis there's eighteen hundred empty lots in north minneapolis and so we're trying to take over these lots and turn them into into gardens so this is what's called the food desert where it's really hard to get food and the other thing is that if you did go to a store you probably wouldn't find fresh vegetables you'd find canned vegetables and processed foods because they have a really long shelf life food justice means that people have a right to clean the whole foods that it's not full of toxins and it means that we can be not only consumers  food we not not only have to fire food but we can produce our food you know a long time ago you have used to have individual farmers now you've got some corporate folks who run farms we don't know know it's generally a low income community and self when you look across the street and see a garden like this that's pretty empowering and we get to decide in shape how we want our community to look north minneapolis is going green give us a call and learn what we mean where once lie urban blight now sits luscious garden sites gardens without borders classrooms without walls architects of our own destinies access to food justice for all we've learned a lot on this journey to make this documentary and we even learned about weed zero ways to work composting we haven't met some compost worms along the way