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farm they give away. give away. every afternoon, there s a line outside cathedral kitchen in nearby camden, new jersey. what these folks come for often rivals the best takeout anywhere. chef matt jenson. i have green salad with watermelon radishes from carversville farm. the potatoes are from carversville farm. and our chicken is from carversville. how good is this as produce? the quality is fantastic. reporter: discerning clients like deion sanders echos that praise. reporter: how good is the food here? on a scale from one to ten, a nine and a half. that s pretty good. look at it. it feeds the homeless. reporter: pre-covid, cathedral kitchens served meals inside. more like a family restaurant than a soup kitchen. they also run a kitchen academy that trains workers for careers in the restaurant industry. chef niama rutling is a
wow. yeah. so good. it s very, very sweet. carversville farm fulfills the lifelong dream of a son of south philadelphia. he grew up in south philly in a row house. and for him the farm was heaven. for years and year and years, he talked about it. amy and tony durazio built and run a still-growing technology company. they ve done quite well. he said, you know, i think i might want to start a farm and give everything away. and i thought, well, the ride s been pretty fun so far. might as well give it a try. they ve done well and decided to do something good. really good. the food is as good as any food that goes to a michelin three-star restaurant and our dream is to provide the level of respect that you would expect for the food to be delivered to you in a restaurant. and in case you missed it, the abundance of their 300-acre
they re excited to come out. listen to that. that s some happy chickens. i think so. guard dogs thor and natasha make sure no wily coyotes invad this haven that livestock manager craig haney says produces more than a thousand eggs a day. these are real, life, superduper organic eggs. they re certified organic and pasture raised. good living. nearby, turkeys strut their stuff. and across the way, the black angus move on to fresh pasture. carversville farm is organic, regenerative, which means season by season, the soil actually get richer. it shows. we ve got broccoli over here. yep. we ve go broccoli here. and we have cauliflower over here. and it s just looking really, really beautiful. it sure is, isn t it? stephanie zimmerman schmidt is vegetable production manager here. we sample the kale.
at a time when a lot of us probably ate a little more than we might normally have yesterday, we also have this. 42 million people this year may face food insecurity, according to feeding america. one in eight americans. right now, philadelphia has the largest poverty rate of any major u.s. city. and across the river in camden, new jersey, that rate is even higher. 37% of the population lives below the poverty line. nbc s kerry smith went to a farm run by a husband and wife, who are addressing that emergency with empathy. even in the fall, carversville farm is as green as spring. a response, we re thinking, to the care and goodwill of the folks who work here.
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