Leslie Young is a farm wife from Franklin Parish. She tells us about growing up as a city girl and meeting her now farm husband while in college at Louisiana Tech. Starting off in the journalism industry, Leslie loves the life she lives in Small Town Louisiana, surrounded by agriculture. She tells us how she takes pride in having raised her children on a farm, and now getting to share that with her grandchildren.

Louisiana Farm Life

Leslie Young - Journalist Turns Farmer and Instagrammer

Working at Louisiana Farm Bureau, my coworkers and I get to travel the state telling stories for farmers on our TV show, This Week In Louisiana Agriculture. What we’ve found is that there are a lot of interesting aspects that don’t make it into the finished story you see on the show. This podcast is our way to more fully tell that story. Our hope is that you better understand the issues farmers face every single day, and that he or she isn’t much different from you and I. We want this podcast to introduce you to the person that’s not only that farmer, but the parent, the spouse, the conservationist, the volunteer fireman, the mechanic, the church deacon, the community leader who spends their days working the land growing the food and fiber that we depend on everyday. On each episode, we’ll have a conversation with a farmer to discuss life on and around his or her farm. It is simply a chat with farmers about their farm and how they got to where they are today.

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Louisiana Farm Life