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Taja Sevelle of Urban Farming shows Ellen how to plant a food garden
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is in its seventh season. Since its inception in 2003, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has earned an impressive 29 Daytime Emmy Awards. The show continues to prove itself a leader in the daytime talk show genre by blending genuine warmth, humor and unparalleled celebrity interviews.
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has received acclaim for spotlighting the host's compassion and humanitarian efforts. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has raised over $10 million to improve the lives of New Orleans residents, and partnered with Brad Pitt's "Make it Right" foundation to help rebuild in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and raised over one million dollars to help build eight homes. The show has also dedicated a special episode to Breast Cancer Awareness Month and DeGeneres has served as spokesperson for General Mills' breast cancer awareness initiative, "Pink for the Cure." The show's annual "Toys for Tots" drive has raised significant funds and awareness of the cause over the past six seasons. Ellen has also hosted "American Idol's" very successful "Idol Gives Back" special that raised money for children in extreme poverty in America and Africa.
About Urban Farming
Urban Farming's mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, educating youth, adults and seniors and providing an environmentally sustainable system to uplift communities.
Taja Sevelle, Executive Director & Founder of Urban Farming, is a music recording artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota[1] who began her music career in 1987 when she was signed to the Paisley Park Records label by Prince In the same week she was accepted into the Berklee College of Music in Boston, she was offered a deal from Prince.
Taja Sevelle's first 1987 single, "Love Is Contagious", became her signature song. She recorded Fountains Free (1991) on Warner/reprise/Paisley and Toys of Vanity (1997) on Sony, and has written songs with Burt Bacharach, Thom Bell, Prince and Nile Rodgers among others. She has song catalogs with Warner Chappell Music Publishing and North Star Music as well as her own publishing company, OW Music.
She has also written a 270-page novel "Rain On A River" and is working on her next novel, "The Joke." Additionally, Taja Sevelle invented a kitchen appliance and is partnered with Larry King of CNN and his wife who is a singer, Shawn King on the invention. In the late 1990s, she founded the Matrix Music record label.
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