Annie Carlson is a big dreamer and not your average farmer. She is known at the Bismarck, North Dakota based farmer’s market BisMarket for her tasty pork, baked goods and she raises vegetables that she preserves all summer and fall. She sat in my living room this past week and said she has “something like 800 jars” canned and done…
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Erin Ehnle is from Edelstein, Illinois and currently resides in Dunlap, Illinois. You probably have not been to either town. But maybe you have seen Erin’s work as Keeping It Real Through The Lens of a Farm Girl. Her photography and images reach thousands. And if you haven’t, meet this fabulously creative and talented young woman in agriculture. I first…
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Sustainability is often an overused word in my everyday life. It depends on who you talk to and how they define it. Often among my friends and some communications clients, “sustainability” creates more confusion than clarity. The bottom line is agriculture is sustainable and we are working now on sharing how we are sustainable, learning to tell the stories of…
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Who are the next generation of agriculturists? Meet one today in Taylor Truckey, originally from Sherwood, Michigan and residing in East Lansing, Michigan where she is a senior at Michigan State University. I met Taylor in the summer of 2013 at an AgChat Foundation conference. It was my first night at the conference and I purposely said I was only…
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Today is Day Three of 30 Days of Women in Agriculture, 2014 Edition. Links to additional featured profiles are listed below and follow along daily for features in this ongoing series. Five upcoming giveaways are built into the 30 days so you don’t want to miss any. Subscribe in right column by email. You can follow along on Facebook and…
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