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Michael Dunne: I’m Michael Dunne. Perhaps it seems like a million years ago, but it wasn’t that far back in our past when the farms and ranches of the Willamette Valley actually fed all the people who live here. After all, it is a rich agricultural area. But of course, globalization has created a food system where your food staples probably come from states, nations and even continents away. In that race to make our food cheaper and more efficient, we’ve lost the real connection between local farmers and everybody else. Today on the show, you’ll meet a nonprofit in Corvallis that’s working to reestablish these connections and, in the process, help develop a better food web. Then, in the last part of our show, our reporter will update us on the potential strike that could drastically affect colleges throughout Oregon. Kirsten Miller, the director of Ten Rivers Food Web. Kirsten, thank you so much for coming on the program.
Kirsten Miller: Thanks so much for having me…