Now imagine a recent graduate of
agronomist and receives a
invitation to visit the ministry
agriculture in a meeting
that day when I traveled in Medellín to
Bogota and came to the ministry first
with what I find is with the
next phrase agriculture is the
own profession of the wise the most
adequate to the simple and the occupation more
worthy for every free man and there
I started to understand or a situation that
I introduced the newcomer to
Medellin when friends of mine
they said david vos sos a peasant with
Title
You are a farmer with title and in
Sometimes respectively on me
says jean up a butler with title
I said that proudly but now
when I found this, it was how we
we were going to transform to dignify this
under that profession and it was not the one of the agro
it was not the farmer’s
as a result of this we started to generate
different processes and one of them goes
very hand in hand with this theory and in the
theory of the 0km the 20 kilometers is not
the instance that we are example of
Medellin to our corregimientos 10 30
kilometers of the stay in which
We are from Medellin to Bogota about 236
240 kilometers but really what is the
distance that these foods travel
to get to the set of our
China who wondered today or who is
has asked
these foods that are reaching today
our plate where they come from and is there
where we as citizens start
to see topics like Medellin is in
shortage
us today of any dish
food that we are
we are eating an average of 99
percent imported food
the challenge is how we started
generate some links towards food
and we started to generate a development of
city a development of how we
we connect today with these foods that
we have in our cities and this
responds to the situation that exists in
medellin
we have cases today where there
children who go to school or to
school with a panela water and cardboard
soaked and that’s the essential thing for your
food day because at school he
It comes when it comes to school is
find with a plate is lunch and
possibly their only meal of the day and
we are food insecure
then when we started to see this and
we started to see that reality we have to
get to this 0km issue and this is
an example an example where today a
hostel when I knew the owner
he was telling me to see what we can do
different here I said well
we take advantage of the terrace and start
have the first 0 km model in a
hostel and today these tourists who come to
this hostel is possibly fed or
make a salad with a lettuce that
this orchard comes out or surely today
aromatic that they are taking them the
they are taking out of this round
that’s what we come to share today and
how do we reconnect with those
emotions with that which is something simple and
something simple
Here we have an example of how we
we connect with this again
task and I could claim that more than 90
percent of the public here present the
realized that is the bean the bean that
they put us to plant at the time in
a cotton and when we were boys
the bean germinated like this this is the
task of my nephew jacobo and santiago
of the school that for things of life and
coincides with the tedh more or less a
month later they gave the task but this
task has been to connect again with
they
to feel that sentence again
what is to germinate a product at home
what it means for these children
that innocence that astonishment when well
get out the first sheet and I eat
agro professional I could be
planting more than 100 thousand plants per month
but he’s not living it as I saw it with
this cold and that’s thanks to santiago and
jacob
that’s why I bring it because that’s how we
we started connecting to the ground with the
agro
today this same exercise
we are taking it to centers
educational already today we do not sow just one
bean we planted it surely more than
50 plants or a child can have the
possibility to plant more than 50 plants
but the most beautiful thing when we have the the
garden at school in the connection and
the challenges that this generates
pedagogues like today an educator will
question and how will I teach the
child to get their hands dirty and like today
that father
family that is watching when you are going
pick up notes or leave the son the son
It leads to death and tells her life
for that I messed them up and went back to
connect to the father but even more beautiful is
when the child reaches she tells Dad
come bonus dad is lettuce for the
home that I want to eat it
generates around the table in the house and
it’s a family connection because that
salad that they are going to eat is product
of something that always that son and we started
to generate new connections and there it is
where this has a social meaning and
this has a sense of life where
transcends that border where it transcends
the fact that it ‘s the bean that we made
of children already transcended an orchard and that
Orchard already arrived at the table as that table
generates a family atmosphere and this is
comes adding to these realities already in
neighborhoods like today we have producers
of the city they are planting in their
spaces and they are being part of the 0km
like these producers that by ec
situations like in these neighborhoods of
Medellin invisible barriers were lived
there was a very strong violence
but they themselves made their decision
as a community to defend its territory
this territory is the territory in the
that we have to see each other and they
they reached agreements like for example to
the orchard does not enter weapons or
we change a weapon for a hoe and when
that generated this in the communities of
Medellin began to replicate and
returned an echo and they began to say come
we need another turn in another space
we started with 4 and we took 22 and there it is
where we started to connect the emotions
from the muds of the people these
common citizens who today see a
opportunity in this
and when I talk about opportunities too
I have to refer to this type of
public and these are the former inhabitants of
street from Medellin to another social program
how do we connect with this person with
this day-to-day citizen with whom
when we go in the car we close the
windows because what fear and yes
possibly that generate us but in the
background are still human and that was what
that we saw and that is what we have
challenged in the middle and we said come
how do we make a former inhabitant of
street by means of agriculture it
can reconnect to the social environment
and our society
there in this program have passed 220
young people and 100 of them have returned to their
houses have had labor opportunity have
had life opportunities and have
dreamed again
that is what we are generating with the
agriculture connections and those connections
they go from the simplest and that is
we connect with each other
like all of us have a grandpa or
a family member an uncle or a friend who has
had that connection with the ground was
farmer or was a farmer and today we
We are reconnecting here
today thanks to this bean that all
we have done and that is an exercise
world
That’s why the invitation that I leave with you is
that in the next visit that you
have at home
you have an aromatic sown
by your hands that you attend to that
friend that person close to that relative
harvest in with their own hands and they
the den that is the invitation
thank you very much
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