https://fixthenews.com/p/grain-of-hope
"Standing in a wheat field under the vast skies of rural Australia, it would be
easy for the rest of the world to slip away. But during last year’s winter
harvest, as Rob Houghton worked on his farm in Leeton - a country town five
hours west of Sydney - he wasn’t thinking about his fields. His attention was
fixed beyond the horizon, on Sudan, where millions of people were starving.
“In my business, yield is king,” Rob says. “But I’ve always had a knot in my
gut that there are a lot of people in the world who haven’t got enough to eat.”
Rob has spent his life producing food. His family came to the Riverina in the
1930s as part of a soldier settlement scheme, and today the property produces
chickpeas, popcorn, cereal crops and cotton. Farming, he says, has always been
about feeding people. That’s why he and a small group of friends have decided
to ship 500 tonnes of wheat to Sudan."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
