Donna Meyer
The Master Gardener's experience
Donna Meyer, interviewed by the students of the Ohio Wesleyan University, is a member of the Delaware County Master Gardeners Association and a second generation farmer.
In the interview she tells the history of her family explaining the profound link between her and her relatives' experiences and agriculture. She reconstructs the social history of agriculture in the past century, highlighting the main changes that this industry met. In so doing, she brings to the foreground the radical change in social perception of agriculture and the raise in recognition that farming experienced in the past decades.
Video table of contents
- A family history of farmers
- Master Gardener
- Agricolture: a history of changes
- The challenges that a farmer faces
- Rethinking GMO
- Social change and food
- Social life of a farmer
- Local products and their use
- Farming: a family job
- The economic challenges of growing food
- Consumers who do not know the food
Interview information
Country: US
City: Delaware, Ohio
Altitude: 255m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware,_Ohio
Donna Meyer
Year: 1960
Profession: Farmer
Languages: English
Document by: Michele F. Fontefrancesco
Video by: Christopher Fink, Abigail Walsh, John Batchelder, Alyse Marotta, Rebecca Powditch, Zach Ross
Created: 27-09-2011