on thursday, americans of all income levels will sit down to a thanksgiving dinner, but for any poor americans, particularly for those without convenient access to grocery stores, healthy food is difficult to come by and the outcomes are often deadly. but one rural north carolina pastor, the reverend richard joyner of the canote family life center, grew tired of burying his parishioners young, because they had succumbed to diseases like type ii diabetes. and so he started preaching the importance of healthy living and healthy eating and launched a community garden project that has expanded to the point where it is now giving food away to local families and sells all of
sharecropping and what we grew in the fields normally end up on our plates. but a lot of prayer and a lot of god began to help us be obedient and we really saw the impact through our children. we were able to afford our summer camps, we were able to put food on our tables. youth became excited about it, goth into bee keeping and now with 200 beehives and beautiful opportunity for master gardener, mr. heinz to teach our students how to become beekeepers and putting it in the markets. all right, well, that s a wonderful, wonderful contribution. i wanted to highlight you as we prepare for thanksgiving. thank you, reverend joyner. thank you so much, reverend al. up next, my final thoughts on my mentor, jesse jackson, revealing to the world his parkinson s diagnosis. stay with us. ( )
the products to local farmers markets. joining me now, reverend richard joyner, pastor and executive director of the chinetti family life center. reverend, thank you for being with us. thank you so much, reverend al, for having us on this morning. it s my great pleasure to be with you. you know, i ve taken healthy eating very seriously, but i have noticed that as i travel a lot, that healthy food is not very accessible in many communities where it s low-income people in communities of color. and it is very, very disturbing to me, it is also personally inconvenient, because you don t know where to eat, and i m very concerned, as people gather this week for thanksgiving family, that they re going to be engaging in diets that really is detrimental to the health of their families. you ve come up with a real solution to this.