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What we eat and where it comes from is a critical part of human health.
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In fact, 59% of Americans think it's a top factor to know where their food comes from,
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and 54% prioritize food that is consistently available locally.
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And one of the best places to get that locally sourced food?
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Small family farms and farmers markets.
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I love a good farmers market, and I'm not alone.
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There are over 8,700 farmers markets in the U.S., where roughly 40,000 farmers sell their products.
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And they seem to be getting a bit more attention thanks to a certain lettuce-related issue.
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Americans are growing weary of the rising number of recalls related to those stomach-churning cyclospora and salmonella outbreaks.
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With only 55% of Americans feeling very or somewhat confident in the safety of the food supply, buying direct from your local farm could be the answer.
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But how does a small family farm business compete with major grocery stores for customers?
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And what's behind their sales pitch for safer and fresher food?
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I came out here to Camarillo, California to check out McGrath Family Farms.
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This farm has a pretty unique model.
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It's a collective of a few smaller farmers working land that's been a Southern California staple for generations.
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Phil McGrath, who's my mentor, he's the fourth generation McGrath on this same land.
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And him and his siblings, they started some of the first farmers markets in our area.
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A group of us that were apprentices here were carrying on that legacy.
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We are 35 acres of certified organic land.
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We grow a lot of different crops, over 20 different varieties of produce and vegetables, as well as over 20 different varieties of flowers.
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McGrath Family Farms practices regenerative and organic farming, which means fewer chemicals and machinery.
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But this more natural approach also means they're frequently adjusting to mother nature.
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I always say farmers, especially smaller farmers or mid-sized farmers, were some of the best problem solvers around because we're dealing with problems constantly.
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You plant those seeds, you're investing all your upfront capital, right, in all this, and you're hoping those seeds come up, that the conditions are right for those seeds to germinate.
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My whole family does work here, so my mom, my dad, my grandpa, my uncles, and then my siblings and I,
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another 10 to 15 workers here at the farm that do an assortment of things,
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whether it's packing, weeding, harvesting, washing the produce.
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Growing crops organically, there's going to naturally be challenges.
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Weeding is one of the biggest costs of organic farming.
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We spend all our time weeding.
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Then you have pest pressure that comes in.
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You might have some kind of soil pathogen you got to figure out.
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And the second you harvest that crop, it needs to get to our end customer immediately, as quickly as possible to have all that viability, to have all that nutrient density.
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So how do only a couple dozen people maintain food freshness and availability while keeping the business afloat?
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Everything is harvested for the markets the day before.
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Then everybody packs up the produce and fans out to several farmers markets in Southern California each week, all of them about 50 miles or less from the farm.
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Our whole family, especially on Sunday, when we have two farmers markets everyone's away at a market that's a lot of ground to cover
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and the cycle restarts again every week
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if there's any disruption it can be costly we can't miss the market
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because we're expecting the money that's made throughout the week to be able to reinvest it into our seeds
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and our employees i think for the most part our pricing
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has been the same for the last like 10 years people will always notice
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when the price goes up but they tend to not notice when the price goes down.
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Farmers markets are a main driver of this farm's business, but not just because that's where they see the most sales.
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It's also where they form direct relationships with customers,
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which means that farmers like Mike and Tony also have a pulse on their customers anxieties when food safety issues happen.
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When anything happens like this on the news, automatically customers are concerned.
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You're rightfully so.
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They want to now know where does the food come from?
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People start to come more to the markets and buy stuff directly from the farm
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to prevent being affected by any sort of outbreak that's through the supply chain.
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We don't want the food to travel far.
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It's alive.
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It needs to get enjoyed immediately.
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It'll be harvested today, washed and packed, and then you go to market.
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These hands grew it, these hands washed it, and these hands brought it here.
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An operation like Taylor Farms, the lettuce distributor linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, is massive by comparison.
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It has over 25,000 employees,
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30 processing facilities, and produces over 265 million servings of produce weekly that makes its way into chain restaurants,
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major grocery retailers and big box stores.
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And generally speaking, buying food from grocery stores is highly regulated and safe.
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But its supply chain does have more potential contamination points.
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Some produce travels hundreds or thousands of miles from where it's grown to where it's sold, passing through processing, storage and distribution facilities.
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People come to the farmers markets and sometimes be like, The produce at the stores is a lot cheaper, but one thing that I tried to explain to them,
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the produce in the grocery stores most of the time is coming from another country.
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And also the produce that we're providing to them is most of the time just a day old.
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The ultimate advantage of a small local farm is how direct
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the journey of their produce from the fields to their customers is.
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You're getting a more nutrient dense and flavor dense produce.
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And more than anything, it's going to last longer
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and be safer for you because it's being transferred from less hands and stuff.
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We grow the food in the greater Los Angeles area here, and we bring it into the city in our local area as well here.
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So that direct feedback informs our growing decision.
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We'll have people that ask us to grow beets, or they'll ask us to grow a specific variety of tomato.
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And we're always willing to try new things too.
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It's a small community that supports each other.
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The farmers and our customers at the farmers market, we all come together to make this possible.
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Even with thousands of farmers markets and farms across the country, There are still areas known as food deserts, places with limited access to affordable,
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nutritious food because of geography or economics.
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The farmers I met with had some advice for people who live there, too.
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A national and a global food system.
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It's a miracle that humans created this.
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We were able to figure out how to grow food and ship it all over the world.
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Do your due diligence when you get your produce home.
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You make sure you wash it, you store it safely.
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We never take anything for granted.
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And these small farmers are always looking for creative ways to reach more people with healthy, safe food.
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When we have a surplus of produce, especially after the farmers markets, we donate it to Food Forward and then give it to food banks.
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Where I spend a lot of my time today is in farm to school.
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Today, we're in six school districts reaching around 60,000 students in just Ventura County.
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So if you have a local farmers market and it's within your budget, consider buying a few fruits or veggies.
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Your local farmer and your taste buds will thank you.
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想要提升英语口语，尤其是雅思口语练习，真实场景的对话最有效。这个视频围绕“安全饮食”展开，涵盖日常交流、农业知识等实用话题，既能积累生活词汇，又能学习如何清晰表达观点。通过看视频学英语，你能模仿 native speaker 的语气和节奏，非常适合英语影子跟读。而且内容贴近现实，学会后能直接用于和朋友讨论食品安全、逛农贸市场时的交流，实用性满分！
语境中的语法与表达
- “What we eat and where it comes from is...”：主语从句的用法，将两个名词性从句合并作主语，适合表达复杂观点。在口语中使用能让句子更有深度，比如雅思口语描述“健康生活方式”时可以说“What we do daily and how we manage time is key to well-being”。
- “I'm not alone”：简洁表达“并非个例”，比“Many people think so too”更自然。在对话中用来引出数据或例子，比如“我喜欢有机食品，I'm not alone——身边很多朋友都开始关注食材来源”。
- “which means fewer chemicals and machinery”：非限制性定语从句，补充说明前文内容。口语中使用能让逻辑更连贯，比如描述农场特点时说“This farm uses regenerative farming, which means it's more friendly to the environment”。
常见发音陷阱
提高英语发音，得注意视频里的 tricky 单词。比如“cyclospora”（环孢子虫）和“salmonella”（沙门氏菌），这两个专业名词的重音分别在第二和第三音节，容易读错；“regenerative”（再生的）中间的“ne”发音较轻，别读成“re-gen-er-a-tive”。另外，说话者有轻微美式口音，“farmers”中的“er”发卷舌音，“markets”的“ts”要轻咬舌尖。练习时可以用英语影子跟读，逐句模仿，慢慢就能掌握这些细节啦！
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | is harvested · is presented · being affected |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | that's been · has been |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | farming, which means · people who live |
什么是跟读法？
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