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Joyner ran a youth camp through his church, so that summer,
喬伊納在他的教堂里組織了一個青年營，所以那個夏天，
using land, equipment, and seed donated by the community,
他利用社區捐贈的土地、設備和種子，
he showed the campers how to grow their own food on a small plot of land.
向露營者展示如何在一小塊土地上種植他們自己的食物。
The kids, 4 to 16 years old, consumed their initial harvest of mustard greens,
4到16歲的孩子們吃了自己第一次種的芥菜、
sweet potatoes, and other vegetables,
紅薯以及其它蔬菜，
but the following year, they delivered free boxes of vegetables to senior citizens.
但第二年，他們向老年人免費運送了幾箱蔬菜。
"One 97-year-old lady was so excited, she kissed the children," Joyner says.
喬伊納說：“一位97歲的女士非常興奮，她親吻了孩子們。”
Not everyone welcomed the bounty.
并不是所有人都歡迎這筆賞金。
Only a generation or two removed from sharecropping,
只有一兩代人從佃農中脫身，
some church elders questioned the wisdom of participating in any sort of agrarian pursuit.
一些教會長老就參與任何農業明智與否提出質疑。
They remained uncomfortably familiar with Edgecombe's role in the South's antebellum cotton economy,
他們仍然不安地熟悉著埃奇康比縣在南部棉花經濟中扮演的角色，
in which African Americans were treated as second-class citizens
非裔美國人被視為二等公民，
and Conetoe was home to many slaves.
Conetoe是許多奴隸的家園。
As Joyner explains the prevailing concern:
正如喬伊納解釋的那樣：
"Do we really want our kids going back to that?"
“我們真的希望我們的孩子回到過去嗎?”
But he saw it differently.
但他的看法不同。
The kids are "bringing food to people who need it.
孩子們在“把食物帶給需要人的過程中
They enjoy the process.
很享受。
They're playing out there," he says.
他們在那玩耍，”他說。
Meanwhile, tending crops, selling produce, and tracking digital data
與此同時，照料農作物，銷售農產品，跟蹤數據
impart valuable lessons in science, technology, math, and nutrition.
為科學、技術、數學和營養學方面提供了寶貴的經驗。
