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QCP #033 | Christopher Renfro, Founder of the Two Eighty Project|The Way of Natural Winemaking and Re-imagining a Thriving Society

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Christopher Renfro (instagram, additional links) is the founder of the Two Eighty Project, an organization “dedicated to building a sustainable food and wine community that nourishes every member of the local economy and ecosystem.” It began with his love and curiosity for learning about wine and implementing his knowledge into a community farm visible from the Highway 280 Freeway heading out of San Francisco.

SHOW NOTES | MENTIONS
SEG 1 – Castles and Finding True Freedom in the outdoors

SEG 2 – Financial Illiteracy, The Underlying Reality of Food Service, Ambitions for 280

the Food Service Industry and Humanity
Black Wallstreet
Tulsa Oaklahoma
Critical Race Theory
Think Tank

SEG 3 – Rethinking the Food Industry Models, Baselines of Comfort

Food Security in San Francisco
Feed the People Collective
Shared Cultures Miso
Co-op Businesses
Rethinking the Comfort Baseline
Homelessness, Youth, Elders

Contains a snippet from Good Morning America | Patagonia founder donates company to fight climate change, Sept. 15, 2022

QCP 027 | Souhad A. Zaki, Economist | Understanding the State of Global Food Security

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Souhad Abou Zaki is a Curious Economist and a Rural Development Enthusiast. She is currently a Senior Admissions officer residing in Lebanon at Notre Dame University, Louaize. Souhad works as a Lecturer in Economics, teaching undergrad courses in Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, and International Economics. She is also a Research Consultant and Proposal Writer for Rural Entrepreneurs, helping conduct research on rural development-related topics, which include women’s economic empowerment, food security, and social entrepreneurship. She holds a Degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a master’s in Agricultural Economics and Development. She is currently pursuing another degree in food security.

QCP #025 | Jairus Ferrer, Agricultural Entrepreneur | How the Youth are Taking on the Food Crisis in the Philippines

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Jairus Ferrer is a agricultural entreprenuer from Philippines. With family roots in Mindanao, the southernmost region of the Philippines, he decided to leave the congested, fast-paced city after thirteen years in favor of a more steady-paced, semi-rural, widely untapped area to get in touch with nature and get involved in economic development in rural communities.

QCP #021 | Garnet “G Stacks” Geoffroy, BBQ Pit Builder | The Arc of Fire and Iron

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If you had BBQ in the Bay Area in the past ten years, there’s a good chance the meat was cooked on one of the units fabricated by our next guest – Garnet Geoffroy, also known as G Stacks – proud owner and welder of custom-made, handcrafted smokers and pits right here on the west coast of Northern California.

Barbecue pits are a great equalizer for entrepreneurs typically bogged down by the seemingly endless fees and regulations imparted on small business owners who have no resources or means of opening up a brick-and-mortar business. Barbecue pits and pitmasters are the embodiments of resilience. The techniques they’ve honed in and feel they’ve developed for cooking come from trial and error. Their cooks are subject to variables in time and weather, so they must be able to adapt and keep their techniques fluid and flexible to adjust as necessary to create consistency in their products.

QCP #009 | A Trip Across the World and Into the Multiverse with Jethro

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Jethro is, what I like to call for fun, my younger brother from another mother. He’s the youngest son of my dad’s twin brother. Currently residing in Manila, by way of Cagayan de Oro Philippines. With his short stay in Manila, he immersed himself in his art within the underground hip-hop community. Through finding his artistic medium, he fixated his lens on the vibrant, unsung scene of the culture in Metro Manila.

However, his passion was only realized during a difficult time. At six foot four, he was a highly scouted youth basketball player by some of the most prestigious universities in the Philippines. As a professional basketball hopeful, his career took an abrupt stop after blowing his knee during the recruiting process. Without resources for surgery, It forced him to rethink his path. With help from his family and friends, he found his way – pulled by the gravity of a creative life. Through teaching himself the craft of editing and networking, the discipline he learned from basketball earned him some professional opportunities with film editing.

QCP #007 | The New Filipino American Folk Tales of Daly City

Daly City is one of the closest suburbs in the outer borders of San Francisco, located directly to the South. It’s home to one of the densest populations of Filipinos, anywhere outside of the Philippines, comprising 33% of the total population in a 2010 census.

From the late ’80s to the early 2000s, Daly City helped to raise some of the world’s most famous DJs, and dance groups. It was a big part of the history here on the west coast for the Filipino and Hip-Hop communities.