The sixteen one

It's so hard to listen to lecture today, because of the owner's pretty daughter~~~
The farmer/owner who spoke to our class yesterday was named Paul Clever. Him and his wife (a professor at hocking college) are the founders of the Good Earth Farm. Their overall goal and purpose before setting out to create Good Earth Farm was to provide food pantries with healthful and good quality produce. With the economy so low, there is less food being given to food pantries (I believe he said $.50/per person/per year or something outrageous along those lines). Therefore it was their mission to help provide supplemental fresh produce to pantries in order for people to not only have food but become aware and familiar to fresh, local produce. Good Earth Farm also provides a place of education and retreat for visitors.
Good Earth Farm serves 60 people a week on the produce and dairy they make. So there is a big plot dedicated to produce and to the cattle that they have. The people they serve are those who work and volunteer on the farm, but also again those local pantries. How Good Earth Farm is funded is by donations and grants. Mr. Clever mentioned how they came about the land that Good Earth sits on and it was through the generosity of his neighbors who gave it to them because they liked the goals that he set forth to accomplish. Although Paul didn't mention it, I believe the monitoring and evaluation of Good Earth Farm is done by him and his wife and maybe those who provide funding to him.