January 11, 2008 - Congrats to Linda!
Linda has worked tirelessly for many years, mainly on her own time, to try to establish a sustainable agriculture program and entrepreneurial farm at Marshalltown Community College where beginning and established farmers could rent a section of a 140 acre farm to start a farming enterprise.
She just found out that Congressman Tom Latham has agreed that it is a concept whose time has come, so it earned a $250,000 appropriation! More details are forthcoming. She’s still waiting for the new farm bill to get through congress to see if there will be a tiny slice of the farm bill for the program as she has met with Senator Harkin and his staff about the concept as well and it was very well received.
