I joined the Food Hub board to help grow the local food scene and be a voice for the farmers. My partner and I moved to the western slope in 1995 and love homesteading. We currently own Birdhouse Farm and raise organically grown meat, milk, vegetables, and fruit. We also do construction, forestry, and trail construction work as Bedrock Land Works, LLC. For me, a successful Food Hub would help grow the number of family farms in the west end of San Miguel and Montrose counties and their incomes. It would connect consumers to the healthy, fresh, affordable food that our neighbors have worked so hard to create. It could be the beginning of a regenerated landscape of farms and producers and could change the Iives of many people in our community around the simple notion and appreciation of healthy food.