Excellence in Agriculture

Last week, Farmer Doc and I were honored to be named the winners of the Indiana Farm Bureau Young Farmer Excellence in Ag award. (Yes, it’s a mouthful. It’s also a pretty cool award.)

Indiana Farm Bureau photo by Linda McGurk

This award is open to all Young Farmers in the state (35 years and under) who do not make most of their income from production agriculture (a farm), and is based on an extensive application process followed by a presentation and question and answer session with a panel of judges. The application includes county, state, and national Farm Bureau involvement and leadership; leadership and involvement in other agriculture organizations; and other community leadership. Another important part of the application is to explain what we feel are the top 3 issues facing agriculture in the next five years.

Substantial blog

Thanks goes out to Meggie at Hoosier Farm Babe Tells Tails.    Last week she awarded me the Blog with Substance award!

In five words, I would say that my blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience is...

"Tell it like it is."

If you've been following me, at all, you've seen all the drama that happens here on our little farm.  Everything from cars stuck in the mud, lawnmowers stuck in the ditch, a flooded basement, to no running water, you'll see it here!  No punches pulled.  (Whether my husband likes it or not!)

So some other bloggers I would give this award to are...

1. Dani Do It
2. Frugalista Farm Life
3. Going Jane
4. Gal in the Middle
5. Life's a highway...  and mine's surrounded by corn!
6. Matt Schenk-n-Family
7. The AG Grant Guru (not quite the same type of blog, but substance-filled none the less!)
8. The Misadventures of a Modern Day Farmer's Wife
9. And, of course special shout-outs to Goodeness Gracious 
10. and Beyer Beware - they have both helped me so much with the blogging experience, couldn't be here without you two!

So, now the rules:

• Thank the blogger who awarded it to you.
• Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using five words.
• Pass it on to 10 other blogs which you feel have real substance.

Done, done, and done!  Happy blogging!