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Editor’s Note: Maryellen Bliss is serving as the Franklin County Farm Bureau Fellow this summer.
It has been a little over a month since I started my fellowship at Franklin County Farm Bureau, and I have been able to have many different experiences under my belt. I wanted to take the time to share some of the projects and opportunities I have been a part of so far in this fellowship.
The tasks I work on each week can switch up, and I like staying on my toes working on projects in different areas to benefit Franklin County Farm Bureau. Weekly I have created a series on the Central OH Farm Bureau Facebook page called #MemberBenefitsMonday. My goal is to highlight different benefits that are exclusive with being a Farm Bureau member.
Other various projects I have worked on are rooted in member communication in mailings, seeking advertisers for projects like the Buy Local Directory, helping plan the Central OH Young Ag Professionals Summer Networking Night and putting together the Franklin County Farm Bureau summer newsletter. The newsletter will highlight important stories in Farm Bureau and provide updates to the local happenings for the Franklin County membership.
Franklin County Farm Bureau and edible Columbus are proud to be sponsors at the Pearl Market farmers market. I have had the opportunity to have a booth at the market, which is every Tuesday and Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. At the booth, I am able to talk with market goers about benefits of Farm Bureau membership and promote edible Columbus. There is a special community that comes from farmers markets, and I am so grateful for the kind vendors and patrons that I have met so far this summer.
It is definitely feeling like summer now with events picking up, and the busyness of Farm Bureau is approaching full swing with things to do. I am looking forward to the opportunities that are to come in the fellowship and will keep writing posts that give updates and highlights of events and people in Franklin County.
Labor has always been an issue, mainly because we are a seasonal operation. So that's a challenge finding somebody who only wants to work three months out of a year, sometimes up to six months.
I appreciate the benefit of having a strong voice in my corner. The extras that are included in membership are wonderful, but I'm a member because of the positive impact to my local and state agricultural communities.
I see the value and need to be engaged in the community I live in, to be a part of the decision-making process and to volunteer with organizations that help make our community better.
Farm Bureau involvement has taught me how to grow my professional and leadership experience outside of the workforce and how to do that in a community-centric way.
With not growing up on a farm, I’d say I was a late bloomer to agriculture. I feel so fortunate that I found the agriculture industry. There are so many opportunities for growth.
Knowing that horticulture is under the agriculture umbrella and having Farm Bureau supporting horticulture like it does the rest of ag is very important.
If it wasn't for Farm Bureau, I personally, along with many others, would not have had the opportunity to meet with our representatives face to face in Washington.
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