Blackbird is dedicated to solving this "First Generation Farmer Problem." Our work centers on the idea that the production, processing and distribution of food should be under the integrated control of our communities. It should not be under the control of an adversarial relationship between family farmers and shareholder agribusiness that leaves corporations rich, farmers starved for cash and incentivized to abuse their own land, their heirs looking for a way out, and 2,300,000,000+ people living with food insecurity.