In this conversation, Jason Tartt, Sr. — an award-winning conservation farmer, workforce development entrepreneur, and co-founder of EDGE nonprofit in McDowell County, West Virginia — answers the question:
“What question do you wish journalists or outsiders would ask about Appalachia?”
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