Rashid Nuri isn’t your typical Harvard grad. Instead of bargaining business mergers or presiding over a courtroom, he spends his 9-5 with his hands in the soil on Old Wheat Street in Atlanta’s historic Old Fourth Ward.

At TEDx Peachtree 2013, Rashid won over the crowd with his virtual tour of the future of urban farming. But crop rotations and urban agriculture are not the limit of Rashid’s influence. The first time I met Rashid was in 2011 when I was working with men and women experiencing homelessness downtown. I had taken a tour of his farm, Truly Living Well, and was impressed with not only the hope he had for urban farming, but the hope he had for his staff and interns.

Take a few moments to watch his talk from 2013 and stay tuned to learn how Rashid is helping formerly homeless men find salvation in the soil…