Danielle Guerin is the founder and executive director of Soul Food Project Urban Farm, a nonprofit with four urban farm sites across Indianapolis. Michael sits down with Danielle at one of her farms in Irvington to talk about growing food and growing people, food deserts, the true meaning of food access, and finding healing through farming.

Sponsors:

City Rising (cityrising.org)

Proformus Urban Planning & Design

Intro music:

Scared Rabbit by Jennasen

Timestamps

0:44 — Intro

1:43 — Meet Danielle and the Soul Food Project

4:40 — Growing up in a food desert without knowing it

6:02 — The four farms and what each neighborhood needs

7:09 — Why a grocery store doesn't always solve a food desert

11:28 — Farm Visibility

13:09 — How Soul Food Project got its name

16:25 — Building community at the farm

19:47 — Volunteering and what a shift actually looks like

21:47 — Tips for starting your own garden

22:53 — What keeps Danielle going

26:24 — On Indianapolis

29:52 — How farming helped heal Danielle's relationship with food

34:11 — "What is a third space to you?"

37:08 — A third space that no longer exists

39:10 — Center Point Brewery

40:00 — Question from previous guest

42:48 — What's on Danielle's mind

44:07 — Soul Food Project 10 years from now

46:17 — How to find Soul Food Project