Our Team
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Randy Bekendam
Randy Bekendam is a man deeply committed to preserving open spaces for regenerative agriculture. He has worked alongside his daughter, Amy, for the past 27 years supporting the growth and development of the Amy’s Farm institution, contributing time, expertise, and steady leadership. His values are best summed up in his quote about food justice:
“There can be no argument that the current state of our world system is deeply flawed. The cases of injustice, inequality, and oppression are too numerous to count. Food injustice and insecurity is a foundational reality that desperately needs to be addressed.
Thomas Jefferson has been famously quoted: ‘Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.’
The multiplication of small-scale, chemical-free food production enterprises is the answer to our world’s hunger problem. Eating food produced in a regenerative, sustainable way is the solution to the bulk of our world’s underlying health problems. The composting of food waste and wood product waste mixed with surplus manures can create the nutrient dense soil needed to grow good food.
Millions of people growing and choosing healthy food can start the food revolution we need. Each of us should taste and enjoy the goodness God made in real food.”