Imagine existing while you’re hungry and all you’re eating is hot fries and a Pepsi. You’re all discombobulated on the inside. You don’t know left from right. They’re hungry. These children aren’t performing in school because they’re hungry.
Introduction
In her own words, Leah Lee has “this amazing talent of forcing people to eat okra raw.” Leah, the “Okra Whisperer,” grew up with little to no fresh food in her neighborhood, where “the community’s first interaction with a vegetable was out of a can.” Nearly 400,000 people in our region live this reality, where health and wellness are simply out of reach.
Leah had easy access to fresh, quality vegetables for the first time in her life when she learned to grow her own food just a few years ago. Food justice wasn’t something she heard people talk about until she entered the scene—and now, the conversations are everywhere. Leah has always wanted to be a teacher, to share knowledge with people and watch them grow with it. She’s on a mission to heal the land and the people, and no one is stopping the Okra Whisperer.
From the Interview
Leah Lee
Growing Food Growing People
