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Kristin Reese from Ohio has a Passion for Telling Agriculture's Story    

   

 

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What do you get when you have seven families interested in food, an entrepreneurial lady with a passion for agriculture's story and a plot of land? An equation for a successful community garden!

 

Kristin Reese works in real estate and on the family farm with her husband Matt, while raising their two children and working with Local Flavor Foods, her catering business.

 

Kristin started Local Flavor Foods because she felt "that it was extremely important for people who want to support a local economy to have a good resource of information" to increase understanding about agriculture.  

 

 

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Besides educating others about what farmers do through the catering business and inviting visitors to the farm, the Reese family has helped start a community garden. This community garden has been an excellent way to start a conversation about agriculture. The garden has brought people together, not only to learn where their food comes from and about the effort it takes to produce it, but they are also learning the joys of sharing it.

 

Kristin talks about how many of their friends love to garden but just did not know how. They started a garden with seven families and all worked together to plant, maintain and harvest the garden. Kristin said: "It was a way for children to learn where their food comes from and have a greater appreciation of those who grow the food we all eat."  The best part of this project was that all the food was donated to a community seniors' assisted living facility.

   

This experience also offered the opportunity to be a part of conversations with senior citizens about their gardens and farms when they were growing up. Kristin said: "They were truly thankful to have fresh food to eat that they may have not been able to afford.  It is a very touching and fun project that I hope will continue for years to come." The community garden was more than just about growing food; it engaged the whole community in agriculture.

 

Kristin feels that it is very vital to the future of agriculture that "we all tell our farm stories so that consumers who are 2 or 3 generations removed from the farm can still see the value of what we all do."

 
Matt and Kristin believe that it is important to raise their children so they are very aware of where their food comes from and how much hard work it takes to feed their family. She said: "It is a crazy way of life, but we cannot imagine it any other way."

 

 

 

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Thank you Kristin Reese for your outstanding efforts to educate and start a conversation in your community about agriculture! If you know an outstanding volunteer, let us know! Email us at [email protected].


Pictures are from the family website: www.reesefarmroots.com