Enlighten: Uplift & Inspire

My guest today is Douglass DeCandia. Doug is a conscientious farmer, restorative justice activist and a gifted poet, who happens to be my first cousin once removed. Doug describes growing food as an act of providing nutrition, for people to live more fully physically, emotionally and spiritually. He is also dedicated to using restorative and regenerative agricultural methods that help heal what we have done to the land. Doug cares deeply about providing food for those who are systemically discriminated against because of who they are, where they live and where they are from. Doug is the  Sustainable Food Growing Coordinator for the Westchester (New York) Food Bank (recently renamed “Feeding Westchester”), where he has expanded vegetable gardens in a residential treatment school, a school for the deaf,  2 juvenile detention centers, and at the Westchester land trust.  I am so inspired by Doug’s wisdom, sensitivity and the integrity in which he walks upon our precious earth. I call Doug, my modern day Wendell