Show: On The Town Station: KNCO File: 9:29.mp3 Air date: 2026-09-29 Source: OpenAI whisper-1 · shrunk from 26.7 MB to 5.3 MB --- transcript --- KNCO News Time 1136 77 degrees on our way to about the low to mid 80s or so not too bad for the last days of September it's gonna be pretty warm out there so again if you have errands to do a reminder keep the pets at home you know you might park and shave the Sun moves pretty quickly this time of year and all of a sudden that shaded car might be in the Sun and especially dogs get distressed pretty quickly so yeah just air on the side of just safety for your pets and your loved ones and welcome to on the town at the KNCO studios Lorraine Webb is my guest today very patient Lorraine Webb by the way she was gonna be my guest yesterday and she was able to be flexible like a gymnast with their schedule that's me yeah just bending over all the time well I tell you what though you're doing something very important and it involves something that's happening tonight down at the Banner Grange yes the neighborhood readiness project yes which almost is one of these things Lorraine that sounds too good to be true but you're spearheading this for our community I am there's just been this general sense amongst all our neighbors especially since the lockdowns of this this angst there's so much there's just a feeling of unrest and instability and we're all tapped into it yeah and so we we did this at a similar feeling in 2009 and we essentially what it is is you know as you know we've talked about this that if if the trucks stop rolling for any reason you know if it's a systemic economic failure of fuel supply interruption or even natural disaster whatever if the trucks truck stop running then our local markets have three days of goods on the shelves and so neighborhood readiness project seeks to help our neighbors that means all of us yes take care of one another for a few transitionary few transitional months so it's a long-term food storage program and we want to make it very affordable and easy for people so all the locally owned markets are on board this is kind of interesting first off Lorraine how did you get all these markets to come together to do this oh because they're very open for it yeah they're they're very caring people and they care about our local neighbors essentially they care so both SPD markets natural selections mother truckers California organics briar patch food co-op and peaceful valley farm and garden supply have agreed to offer a limited list of staples to to residents of through the month of September so we're coming right up at the end of the project but um but they've been so cooperative yeah and they're offering these staples at the UNFI list price which is essentially cost at cost so yeah and it's just a limited supply of staples you can check out what they are on the website and you know they've been so cooperative and so open to the project that you know we are at the end of the project now and we have only this one more event tomorrow tonight tonight down at the banner green right yeah from 5 to 7 we're offering instruction on and we're helping people bag their staples in nitrogen which is really a great thing to do that sounds good but it sounds totally scientific see I know how much I'm a sports guy but okay bagging it in nitrogen now what is what does that mean well it just means pretty much indefinite food supply not only do we get rid of the oxygen which in which will spoil things but it kills any infestations that might be in in the staples and so it's really the preferred way to go and we're concurrently also going to have and I'm excited about this I care about this there are some extraordinary indigenous cultural curators who are going to well well I'm helping people bag up their staples yeah they're going to be offering instruction in sustainable harvesting preparation and storing of traditional regional foods and and resources so that's awesome okay it is it is Tony Cervantes and Star Van Crete are going to be there tonight to help people with that and you know we want to be be sure that people understand how to do that sustainably and with respect for for the our other neighbors you know our wing it in swimming and crawling ones yeah yeah I mean there are neighbors exactly right but that's the thing knowing how to prepare it you know as far as what to do with the food it's another important thing sometimes I've gotten things off of CSAs and stuff mm-hmm I'm looking at something going well what do you do with this thing exactly you know and and more than the how even is the where and the when mm-hmm because it has to be sustainable if it's gonna really take care of all of our neighbors exactly right so so yeah that's happening well see what's interesting about this Lorraine you know when you come up with the ideas that you know preparing for you know some of these worst-case scenarios we're kind of on the edge of some of these worst-case scenarios when you see what's happening with fuel supplies you just mentioned that a second ago and yeah what's happening in Middle East well that's certainly the the perception of pretty much everyone I know and everyone is feeling the anxiety of it and I just want to so what we did in 2009 and what it did for me is it gave me just a sense of more stability more control over over my own experience and and we want to frame it in terms of because we've all been schooled recently so thoroughly schooled in how to how to distance ourselves socially distance how to cancel culture how to unfriend yeah how to you know how to make enemies of our neighbors and family how to hunker down and just be kind of like your own little cell right yeah yeah so that you mean so the sub the sub line of the neighborhood readiness project is so if and when the trucks stop running Nevada County can have block parties instead of Mad Max you know let's let's take care of our neighbors that's an interesting line because Mad Max is the other side of that right people are it's like anarchy trying to just get food right or fuel whatever yeah just for me and my dog yeah so yeah so neighborhood block parties rather than Mad Max and so it's a no-cost program I'm also going to be are no cause to the public I'm also going to be offering these nitrogen tanks and the food grade bags I'm going to lend them by appointment so people can come tonight and see how it's done or we actually have a video on the on the website too it's a very minimalist website but has the information there as to how to do this and then I'll I can lend the equipment by appointment and yeah so let me give you the website yes please it is neighbor RP mm-hmm readiness project okay dotnet neighbor RP dotnet and you can RSVP to me at poet Rosie it at mail fence calm mail fence calm I have to admit one of the people that should be recognized too I think is the banner Grange itself yes and for listeners out there banner Grange is the one on McCourtney Road uh-huh as you're heading out towards the landfill they have always done interesting events out there I mean I've done a seat swap out there I think one time right you know they're pretty active Grange for things like this they are and we're really wanting soliciting membership we have positions on our board that are available really want where our intention is is to serve local small farmers and ranchers especially but all of us yeah so you're a member of the Grange yes yeah all right how'd you get into that because I've always been kind of curious about Grange's I think only thing I remember about them when I went to school in Arizona is that they put on square dances yeah yeah you know well we were having some contra dancing out there for a while we do rent the facility it's a 5,000 square foot facility nice big building yeah it has two large rooms kitchen and and there are some we're especially interested in of course agrarian agricultural especially around regenerative farming and ranching sustainability again so and you know what regenerative is no not really well it's one of those terms that just get into the other stuff yeah it's being thrown around a lot as you know and who knows what organic means anymore but yeah I think that's just a paid-off symbol I think it just means not not overtly poisoned yeah not Monsanto right well that's the non-gmo we have a lot to thank UNFI for because the CEO of that who is a local started the non-gmo project which I is very important to me yes but so regenerative it started in South Africa actually with a man named Alan savory who it's a tragic story but but he's spending the rest of his life making up for his part in it when they were looking at land that that was degrading and they decided that the elephants there were too many elephants to for that amount of land and they called no this is horrific yeah harvested the elephants they called 30,000 elephants and and then they watched the land desertify and then they discovered when they when they brought the elephants back that the elephants actually were a keystone species as the buffalo were here on this continent that these heavy animals and these ungulates and there's a model ranch here in town I can't remember the name of it but in two cycles of seasons he has restored with regenerative techniques using animals using cattle really okay he increased his herd but what you do is you you move the you allow the animals to thoroughly graze a spot and they're the heaviness brings up the deep seeds the prairies prairie grass toss seeds long-rooted and then they're fertilized and then they're moved on so rather than over grazing and it mimics the way the herds would move before we took all the predators out yes you know when they moved as a herd and moved on so that the land could regenerate yeah and that's where that word comes from and there is a model ranch here in Grass Valley where he's done that in two seasons we had he brought back four foot tall prairie grasses that were just latent in the soil and they came back quickly yes within two cycles of seasons yeah that's awesome yeah well I mean the Dust Bowl that we had was because buffalo was no longer around well and because they plowed up all the the topsoil and it blew off to Tennessee got all those machines out there to till it and didn't care about it yeah so ground cover is important and a way to to restore topsoil is with increasing our animals which is why I really feel that a lot of environmentalist thought has gone very much astray in in vilifying not only people's caretaking of the land which just is continuing the sort of manifest destiny that was done to the native peoples we come in with an attitude of and an assumption of superiority and impose rather than asking you know my definition of respect is come asking what's needed rather than telling and the people who have evolved with that particular flora and fauna and landscape they they have the answers you know the land is medicine yeah you have to ask and then you have to listen that's right I mean because they have the knowledge that's an important part and that's really you've hit right on exactly what the neighborhood but my motivation for launching it again is all about is I want us to start listening to one another again so you took this on upon yourself Lorraine I did or did you have anybody else helping or do you have anybody else helping you at this point well yes the you know the the the native caretakers who are coming the curators who are coming to speak and Banner Grange has been supportive has helped a little all the markets actually and but I've been I was motivated because I'm I'm now caretaking my now 98 year old mother and since the lockdowns we have been isolated and we're both on fixed incomes and I was feeling like I needed to re-up my my storage my long-term food storage and I didn't feel I had the resource to do it so I would I remembered that in 2009 it enabled because the local markets locally owned markets were involved they were able to help out with the costs so so yeah that was my motivation I also remembered that when I was a kid in Arizona we had neighbors who were Mormon and I'm dinosaur enough that that's when we were all told to duck under our desks for with a nuclear bomb and and and and dig bomb shelters in our backyards well a neighbor did that and she was the mother of my best friend and she told us very sadly that you know I hope you will build one too because we're gonna have to arm ours to keep the neighbors out and I remember thinking I was probably about I don't know 10 I remember thinking I don't want to live in that world yeah it was kind of crazy world wasn't it yeah and it still is yeah and I still don't see the opposite side I was on the other coast you know I was out there outside New York City in Jersey City where I grew up and we used to go into civil defense shelters it was actually the basement of an apartment building high-rise apartment building where all the neighbors like in a row house we went over there and kind of hung out for the drill and stuff and just going this is kind of crazy this is really crazy it's really great yeah never mind what we did in school under the desks and all that stuff is we prepared I know people are listening going is that really happened yes that really happened anyway we have to take our warm break gonna do that right now Lorraine webb is my guest we're gonna go through all the things about the neighborhood readiness project and where you should be tonight we'll be right back emergency and electric with professional quality for friendly service and reliability it's as easy as baby hi it's Andrew Twidwell owner of ABT plumbing electric heat and air you know we've been fixing things around Nevada County since 2001 if there's one thing I've learned it's that home repairs never happen at a good time maybe your water 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together again the markets involved include SPD markets Peaceful Valley farm and garden supply natural selections mother truckers up on the ridge California organics briar patch food co-op prepare direct these are great markets and again locally owned markets yeah I wanted to they're really involved in in our local well-being yeah so so that's why I I asked all of the locally owned markets but regardless of where your food stuff sir purchased we'll help you package them for long-term food storage yeah because these markets I saw a note here that they on average they only prepare for like three days of inventory and then they constantly move it is that right right well yeah especially if there's a natural disaster or something you know there's a run on things it's about three days of inventory on the shelves so so beyond beyond that you know this is why we're having these you know we want to help neighbors be prepared for a few months transition right if the truck stopped rolling for any reason so and and the project was supposed to just go through August but due to people's request we extended it through September tonight is our last scheduled demonstration of of how to use the equipment to do long-term food storage but we are also having these indigenous cultural curators who are going to offer instruction in in sustainable harvesting and preparation of traditional regional foods and resources so that's happening tonight as well and the so so the project is winding down for this year but if there's a lot of demand do you know I'm sure the markets will be happy to and I and I also will be making the equipment the nitrogen tank and the food grade storage bags available on a lend basis at no cost so so that's very kind of you now it's five to seven tonight should we get it there just before five like a you know just to get ready for the start of it or oh sure any time between five and seven good I would I would be there at five yeah yeah that's what I think too I'm gonna be there for 30 setting up but I imagine is the inventory kind of limited at this point too as far as what's going to be out there is there going to be quite a bit of stuff out there as far as well we're gonna handle whatever inventory people bring okay Pat to do the packaging yes and then the demonstrations but with our cultural curators are gonna they're gonna be demonstrating so it's not going to be inventory really it's going to be local resource okay and and then there are people showing up and we'll all be demonstrating how the equipment can be used to to and then people can do their own you know how how is the response been on the earlier projects that you were doing it's been very a couple of times twice when the cultural curator showed up it was very small and then another time and people have been responding a lot and then another time it was really well attended yeah so I have asked for an RSVP but I don't expect that tonight there I think there are quite a few people who have said they're gonna be there already and so we should have a we should have a good turnout tonight and if it wants to extend we'll talk about that all right is there anything we can help you with putting on these events anything you need help with well can CEO does a really good job of getting the word out about yeah yeah that's that's been a great great help so right but you need anything like lifting stuff or moving stuff and all that stuff oh I have a strapping young son good okay that I haven't heard about him see this is what I think about that's going again have you been 98 year old mom you know what yeah we'll have three generations out there tonight from from the web family and we've been fortunately my son lives my mother has been with me in Nevada's just north of Nevada City there for about 12 years and fortunately my my wonderful son lives just a few miles down the road so he's there to help us and if he if it weren't for him during this period since the lockdowns we we would not be here I mean all right yeah well it's an important food storage program that has education with indigenous members are going to be part of our community out there at the banner Grange it is tonight five to seven down there on McCourtney Road please get out there and yeah just to learn and bring your spirit about you and another place and if you want to contact just go to neighbor RP net all right that is the website and we'll keep that we'll keep a a equipment rental program going through that very good --- end of transcript ---