Media outlets in big cities and small towns alike are spreading the word about Michigan’s prodigious agriculture industry, and the masterful custodians who make it happen.
Detroit urban farmers Candi and Mark Fentress, active members of the Wayne County Farm Bureau, recently found themselves in the glow of some quality reporting from WXYZ.
Newswoman Kiara Hay profiled the Fentress’ Corn Wine Oil Farms as part of her outstanding segment informing Detroiters how they can purchase food directly from local growers transforming the city’s residential blight into productive farmland, while uplifting the community with fresh, nutritious food products.
About 250 miles northwest of Michigan’s biggest city, Mason County Farm Bureau member Rob Alway keeps a keen eye on the local farm scene as editor of the Mason County Press, including two recent pieces of interest to local farm families.
Always’s tribute to Larsen Farms matriarch Judee Larsen upon her recent death was an appropriately thorough and deeply colorful account of a woman who milked life as well as she milked cows out on Sugar Grove Road in Victory Township.
A short five miles up US-31 is another marquee local dairy operation, Stakenas Farms, where Bill and Terri’s daughter Lyndsay (Stakenas) Earl is already earning honors in her new gig with MDARD.
Both the Stakenas and Earl clans are active Farm Bureau families. Lyndsay has been active in Promotion & Education programming; her husband Seth is in his second stint as county Farm Bureau president; and together the pair represented Michigan on the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmer & Rancher Committee.
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