I mentioned earlier this month that my friend Katie Pinke in North Dakota was doing a series of posts on women in agriculture. I was honored to be asked to participate in the series. includes an introduction by Katie that really grabs my heart and head. I wanted to post a quick stub here so you can go read the… Read More
In the past few months, I have seen several mainstream ads that receive a lot of attention based on their characterizations of food and farming. Seems everyone is marketing food, no matter what they actually sell. The ads have covered the spectrum — from the appreciation of Paul Harvey piece on “God Made a Farmer” and Culver’s “Thank you farmers” to ads… Read More
I have worked on several mergers over my career and have to say, the news I’ve been seeing my sister Leslie post as status updates has had me shaking my head for a while. But yesterday’s adventure, was too much…. it pushed me to the blogging point which is sort of like the tipping point but the tipping makes you… Read More
This weekend if you were watching “This Week in AgriBusiness” on TV, you may have done a double take as this blog was featured there alongside Katie Pinke’s The Pinke Post, Leah Beyer’s Beyer Beware and Aimee Whetstine’s Everyday Epistle. If you didn’t have a chance to catch it, you can watch Kristin Decker and Max Armstrong talk with us ag bloggers from… Read More
Last Thursday, like thousands of other women from all around the country, I headed to BlogHer ’13 — the leading conference for women bloggers looking to network with their peers and chart a course of growth and development for themselves. To say it was a great experience is an understatement. I went for work, but was also able to find… Read More
I have gotten several different things now and then that friends I’ve made in the blogging world have listed me for some characteristics or to in some way highlight what I do here on my blog. I haven’t paid many of them forward because well, it doesn’t fit. I love getting into adventures and sharing them, I’m not a fan… Read More
