A farming course is encouraging more people to become market gardeners in the South Coast of NSW and improve the resilience of the local food chain. The Moruya's Sustainable Agriculture and Gardening Eurobodalla project (SAGE) is struggling to find new interns and workers. Courtesy: AAP
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00:00 Growing food for a living is just the best lifestyle ever.
00:04 I've been doing it for 40 years and I'm fit and healthy.
00:08 It's over 70 and I love it.
00:12 And I just would love to be able to encourage and teach as many other people and give them
00:18 the opportunity to learn to grow stuff that builds community resilience and health.
00:24 I wanted to do something different and not be on the hamster wheel.
00:31 And it took me a while to understand that I can do that without, it's a lifestyle change
00:38 but I had to readjust my perspective about what I wanted out of life.
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