[Michelle Miller – The Farm Babe]
Hi, my name is Michelle Miller, I also go
as the Farm Babe on social media, do public
speaking, I'm an agricultural columnist and
do a lot of social media outreach to help
consumers understand how their food is produced
from more of a science-based perspective.
So, I guess a little bit about my background,
why I'm so passionate about this topic is
because I grew up in farming, was a Wisconsin
4-H kid, always rode horses and was always
real interested in agriculture, but moved
to Los Angeles for college, lived in LA and
Chicago and was a big city girl, who ultimately
fell victim to a lot of the myths out there
about agriculture.
There's so much mis information, whether that's
food labeling from different companies, or
different moves, activist groups, and it can
be really easy to not really understand how
to decipher fact from fiction online, so a
few years ago, I guess about five or six years
ago now, I met and started dating a farmer,
moved to Iowa for him and realized everything
I thought I knew about agriculture was wrong.
So, to go from the big city girl that fell
victim to every myth to learning the real
truth, you know, your eyes are really opened,
so I started my blog, the farm babe, the farm
babe dot com is my website, or you can search
farm babe on social media and I'm a columnist
on ag daily dot com.
So, through all those different channels,
you know, you found a number of different
ways to share the voice of agriculture and
help people not fear their food and really
get the truth out there about the industry.
I started my Facebook page about three and
a half years ago and between that and Instagram,
you know, twitter and all that stuff, I have
about ninety thousand followers now.
So, it's been a great platform to be able
to reach consumers on all different levels,
whichever is anybody's favorite to get their
information from, but social media is definitely
the number one place to get their information
nowadays, so it's great to have access to
all those different platforms to help share
our stories.
