- this is another thing for me. we're often talked about as being this impoverished state. we are rich, i mean, as can be, in food and the things that we make as a culture and as a community. - you know, you look at something as simple as these pole beans. it took our community to save that seed, and every time we put food on the plate, there's a story about the way that people have always kind of bound together to survive.