16 - Wright-Locke Farm
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Christa Hein: Hey there. Welcome to the Farm Educators Roadmap. I'm Christa Hein, former nonprofit girl turned farm education entrepreneur. I've spent the last 30 years creating hands-on programs that connect people to the land, animals, and the traditions that nourish our daily lives. If you're listening, you probably believe what I do, that farm education is needed now more than ever. Not just on rural farms, but in suburbs, cities, and everywhere in-between.
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Hey there. Welcome back to the Farm Educators Roadmap. I'm Christa Hein, and today we're heading to Suburban Boston to visit Wright-Locke Farm, a historic certified organic community farm that's become a true learning hub. Our guest is Education Director Sarah Doyle. We’ll talk about the farm and their forest friends preschool programs that span babies to seniors, kitchen classes that connect food and land, and what place-based learning looks like on a living landscape.
Sarah, thanks so much for joining us.
Sarah Doyle: Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate being here.
Christa Hein: Absolutely. So I want to start by hearing about your journey and what brought you to the farm. Can you share your career path and how you came to be the Education Director at Wright-Locke Farm?
Sarah Doyle: Sure. I took a very circuitous route. I started out in a traditional K-12 setting. And I have multiple degrees in [00:02:00] K-12 education in a traditional sense. And then I started working at a couple of area universities and started volunteering at the farm. And basically the farm just took a hold of me and all my passion, and I transitioned from being just a volunteer at the farm to joining the board, to actually becoming part of the team about five years ago as part of the education team.
So it was a little bit of a wild ride and still is. I have a large learning curve, but we're getting there.
Christa Hein: Nice. So sometimes experts in farming or in other sciences aren't always able to translate what they know into easy-to-understand ideas for the general public. How do you think your role and your background as a teacher lets you bridge the worlds of farming and education?
Sarah Doyle: Well, it's a funny little bridge because I'm not always the one that gets out there to do it. We have a wonderful staff of incredible educators who are out there doing the work with the [00:03:00] children or the adults or whomever, and an incredible staff who works with the agriculture team, and tons of volunteers and all of this amazing stuff.
So, what I get to do is oversee the programs. Just making sure that what we need to be doing is getting done, making sure that we're communicating clearly with families, communicating expectations, working with our community members, things like that. So, I'm actually not the one out there doing much of the teaching.
But as years ago, one of the many teachers that I worked with at one of the colleges that I worked with, we were talking about how if you are trained in education, if you're trained as a teacher, you could pretty much teach anything. And of course there are certain subjects I won't go near, math being one, but it's the case here as well.
You have to learn by doing. You have to experience the landscape, experience the farm. Experience the seasons and get out there and just be a part of it. And if you [00:04:00] mess up, so it happens, you know, you have to be vulnerable to be able to say, okay, I didn't know that answer, but we're gonna go find it together.
So, it's been fun because I've challenged myself in different ways. The farm has challenged me in different ways, to learn in different ways and to just practice different ways of education and ways of working with different people - from babies, to parents, to seniors, to adults, to high school kids, to college kids. It's all over the place. But like I said, I'm incredibly lucky that I have such an incredible education staff that really does, you know, boots on the ground, all of that work with me. It's amazing to be in this space.
Christa Hein: So when you were volunteering and you said the farm really took you over, what was it that pulled you away from your role in teaching and brought you to a farm?
Sarah Doyle: I just was kind of tired of the teaching bureaucracy, to be quite honest. I loved being in the classroom with my students, but it was all the other stuff that got in the way of the teaching. And I started here as a [00:05:00] volunteer years ago. It was - I remember the day, 'cause I had my now 17-year-old in a papoose on my, you know, on my body and my dog.
And we were just sort of exploring the area and I thought, wow, this is a really amazing space. Let's do something as a family. And we started just becoming volunteers. We started out as chicken volunteers and then we became a goat family volunteer and then, you know, just able to help around the farm. And I got to know the staff and it was just an incredible space, an incredible place to be a part of.
And literally the opportunity fell in my lap to become part of the team. I had been on the board and I had said, you know, hey, we’re starting this preschool. It's an amazing opportunity for the community. We should probably have a director, you know, just to make sure things are getting done, crossing all the t’s and dotting all the i's.
And they said, why don't you do it? And I said, no, that sounds like a terrible idea. I'm a college teacher. I don't do this. You know? But it worked out and it - I jumped over to this team. And I would [00:06:00] never change it. It's been an incredible journey and all of the team here, we are all educators that basically have gone rogue.
Everybody was a classroom teacher at one point or another and is now out in nature. And it's amazing what these kids do.
Christa Hein: Oh, I love that. So, I want to talk a little about the farm. So, Wright-Locke began as a family farm, and today it's this thriving multi-department community, farm, and conservancy.
Can you share a little about the farm's history and how the land came to be preserved?
Sarah Doyle: Sure. So, as you probably saw, you did a little research, the farm has been known as Wright-Locke Farm in modern history. In the 1630s, the Wright family did get property from this space or at the space. Prior to that, we know that and we like to make sure that everybody understands as well, the Native peoples were here - the Massachusett tribe and the Pawtucket peoples were here and were stewarding the land. We don't have much [00:07:00] to go on other than historical documents and things like that. But unfortunately, a lot of those were lost or destroyed.
We do know that in the 1630s, Squaw Sachem had signed the deed over to the Wright family. Whether or not she knew what was happening, or the repercussions of that is - we'll never know. But basically the family did start to farm this space and did start to curate the space as the farm that people think of it today as the Wright-Locke farm.
Eventually the Lockes came along and started, you know, using the space as well, just like the Wrights had. And then the Hamiltons had used this space as well. And basically, oh gosh, I lose count, but some-teen years ago, the farm was gonna be developed by private developers. We were, they were trying to make, you know, multi-unit housing on the property.
And the town of Winchester did an incredible job with some unbelievable leadership and [00:08:00] dedication and just passion and made sure that the farm stayed as a farm. And so we have a very unique relationship with the town as they own the property and own some of the buildings. And then we also have a land conservancy that does the same thing.
So there's multiple parties who are truly invested in this space. We have an incredibly generous community who spent a lot of time and energy and money on making sure that this space stayed as a farm. And we're so lucky that it happened, and so, you know, when people think of Wright-Locke Farm, we have these incredible, beautiful historic buildings.
We have this beautiful open space. We have about 130 acres of Whipple Hill, which is just the next town over. So we're just, we're so lucky to have this space. It's an oasis. I have so many people who say, I can't believe this is here. It feels like it's Vermont. It just doesn't feel like the city.
So it's just, it's, we're so lucky to be in this space.
Christa Hein: Ah, that's awesome. So, you're not just producing food, you're also [00:09:00] taking care of these historic buildings, hosting concerts, running events, a preschool. How do you balance being a working farm with being this cultural hub and also an education center?
Sarah Doyle: It's a great question. It takes a lot of dancing, but we work really well as a team. It takes a lot of communication. I mean, we are a farm first. And then we have a rather robust education department, and we just basically work together under the umbrella of Wright Locke. So, if you wanted to look at it as various, you know, separate little businesses within the umbrella of Wright Locke, that's kind of how we operate.
But there's not a day where we're not communicating with each other, borrowing space, you know, making sure that x, y, or z is in this place or out of this place, or, you know, it takes a lot of practice. We're still practicing because it is, it is still growing. We don't want it to grow so out of control that we just lose the space, but we want to make sure that it grows intentionally [00:10:00] and that we become, you know, or that we continue to be a part of the community and the surrounding towns.
The concerts that you referred to. They were so popular when I was a young mom and I would come here with my kiddos and just beautiful, free, open evening in the summertime to sit here and bring a pizza, bring a picnic blanket, and watch a band and just create community.
And that's one of the things that we love about this space, is we're constantly trying to embrace the community and their needs. And work with them in ways that make sense.
So yes, we do sell food. And that is actually like, it's an incredibly important part of the farm, but the bigger part of the farm is also just making sure that we're creating community and making sure that people feel safe and comfortable to be here and enjoying nature, enjoying the farm, you know, if your dog is here on a leash, things like that.
Just trying to make sure everybody feels safe and comfortable here.
Christa Hein: So you're in suburban Boston. How does that location shape what you're [00:11:00] offering and the mission and the programs?
Sarah Doyle: Sometimes it can be a hindrance because we are not near public transportation, so access to our space is sometimes a bit - it can, if you have a car, it's helpful. Or, if you're close enough that you can bike, it's certainly helpful. But so access is something that we constantly are focusing on at the farm. And one of the things that we do for all of our programs, for events, for the CSAs, for the farmer's market, everything - we try and offer various options of pricing, so I can speak clearly about that with education 'cause that's really my domain.
For our youth programs, we have five tiers for all of our after school and our summer program. For our adult programs, we have three tiers.
So anytime somebody feels that they want to spend a little extra money and give back, they are able to, you know, purchase a higher tier.
And then we offer what it runs like at cost to [00:12:00] run the program and then below cost - no questions, just pick your tier. We have the generous grants from the Cummings Foundation that have continued to support our education programs and support our farm, and they've been able to help us match these tiers and all of that.
And for any of our preschool program – our preschool is a little separate from the education, but it all still falls under the education umbrella. We do offer tuition remission and scholarships, so we try very, very hard to tap into as many different opportunities as we can for people to give back, but also for people to receive.
There have been occasions when we've had children come tuition free to programs. Or adults come tuition free to a program 'cause that's the last, we don't want the access to be hindered by a cost problem, a financial burden. But yeah, transportation, sometimes financial cost. As a small organic farm, it's, you know, very difficult to offer things at zero when we do have certain things that need to be covered. But it is a nonprofit, [00:13:00] so it is helpful in that way that we're just very lucky to have so many people who give back to this space. We have an incredible group of donors who have just continued to support us and support our programs.
So, there's just constant movement of trying to figure out, okay, if the tiers aren't matching what we need or if they're not matching what the community needs, how do we change the tiers? Especially when, you know, purse strings get a little tighter or when there are certain things happening in the world that we just can't control.
So, we just try and move and ebb and flow as much as possible and be flexible. so yeah, I think those are two things that really we focus on is the transportation piece. We've tried the idea of getting a van and getting people over here.
It's just all the things. They just never seem to fall in place. So that's, those are some of the difficult pieces that we have. But, you know, once people are able to get here, it's an incredible opportunity.
We have field trips that come here, and we work with schools, especially Title one schools who can't pay for the field [00:14:00] trips. We'll work with them. We have an incredible family foundation that works with us, the Clavet Foundation, who's offered to pay for transportation for schools if they can't pay for transportation.
Another thing that we try to do is bring educators here to do outdoor education in a way that they can then take to their classroom and farming education in a way that they can take to their classroom.
Because sometimes, if not all the children can get here, there are a lot of kids in school around the Boston area. If at least the teachers can get here and take some gems to bring home to their classrooms, then that's super helpful as well.
Christa Hein: Oh, that's great. So I want to dive into your programs a little bit more.
So, starting with your preschool. So the Forest Friends program, fully licensed, forest-based preschool where kids spend their entire day outdoors. It just sounds so incredible. So why was it important for the farm to offer a forest preschool, and what impact do you see it having?
Sarah Doyle: The Forest Preschool was a brainchild from many [00:15:00] years back.
And it just became a reality oddly enough, during COVID. We actually opened a school during COVID. And we had two incredible educators who are no longer here. They've moved on to different spaces, but they were incredible and brave and braved the first year. And it took off. We were shocked that families wanted to send their kids to be outside all day, all winter.
You know, and it gets, it gets cold here. So, it was an incredible first year and that's kind of when I threw my hat in the ring unintentionally saying, we should get a director and all this other stuff. So, it started out very small. It started out only as a couple of day program. It started out as a, you know, I think the hours have always been the same.
But it just grew. And then we added a Friday program and then we added a kindergarten, and now we have a lunch bunch and all of these things. So, we've been able to meet the demands of the community. We have kids from, I think 20 different towns, 18 or 20 [00:16:00] different towns. So, it's not a community preschool, but it is a community preschool here, if that makes sense.
The teachers are incredible. The families are incredible. We've been able to create this incredible experience for the kids and for the families. And so, we're trying to use the space in a way that doesn't have a negative impact on the space because there are kids here every day and we're trying to change different places where we meet and different places where we go hiking or different activities.
But yeah, so they're here basically the school year, September through June. They're here all outside. And you know, there's ways to keep them warm in the winter and there's ways to keep them cool in the warmer months. So that's an incredible opportunity for these kiddos.
We walk outside and you see these kids tapping maple trees in February. It's a wild experience. It’s pretty amazing and it, you know, with the stuff that they bring home, not that they're not bringing home work, but the stuff, the lessons, the community that they're bringing home is pretty incredible too.
[00:17:00] And we've had several families say that they never thought that their kid could do it, but they're so amazed at what these kids can do is, is amazing.
We have things during the day with them where they'll do like a farm chore, a very simple farm chore or work in the education garden that's been curated and overseen by my co-director.
And then we will come into the kitchen and do Farm Chef Kelsey classes. We have yoga for the kids. We have - it's just a little paradise. It's unbelievable.
And one of our major goals is to try and keep tuition, you know, not outrageous, trying to make sure that people can be here. There is obviously - it's a half day program, 8:30am to 12:30pm doesn't cover many hours for a working parent.
So, we try to figure out how that can work and thus far we haven't figured that magic out. We're trying very hard. But - having a kid be outside all day, you know, for the 3:00 class time is our dismissal time might be a little bit difficult, especially in these winter months, and especially because it gets dark here at 4:00 in the winter time. So there are logistical [00:18:00] things.
And then we have a whole bunch of other programs that we do. The Forest Friends is one of the pieces of the education puzzle, but then we have incredible afterschool programs that fall under our youth programs. So, we have afterschool programs, we have summer programs. It's a week-long half day programming here, for 10 weeks.
And then we have our adult programs, which are programs that are mostly taught by guest instructors. So, we have incredible naturalists or yoga instructors or basket weavers or knitters, whomever, candle makers, people who want to just be here and teach a class for adults in the community.
I mentioned field trips. We also will go into schools and do enrichment programs.
Christa Hein: So let me ask you a little bit of specifics about some of these. So with your youngest children, um, [00:19:00] I see that you run programs for children as young as six months.
So I'm curious, what does it look like to engage those youngest learners, and then how do you involve the parents or the caregivers who bring those kids?
Sarah Doyle: Yeah. That's a, that's a great question. It's not truly about, I mean, obviously the kids, we want to engage, right? And it's, it's not difficult to engage them 'cause they're outside, they are playing and doing some really fun stuff with whatever the lesson plan for the day is.
But it's more about engaging the parents and the caregivers and teaching the parents and the caregivers that it's okay for their child to get a little dirty or to be outside and, you know, the families that come with their youngest babies, just making sure that they're comfortable understanding that kids thrive in the sensory environment that is so rich in the garden.
The kids who come here as two and three year olds for our Sprouts program, making [00:20:00] sure that they, the parents and the caregivers, understand that part of the success of getting a kid outside is dressing them correctly. You know, things like that.
So, yeah, a lot of it is engaging the parents. Whether or not the kid walks out of here with a huge resume knowledge based thing on pollinators, that's less of a goal. The goal is that they understand and appreciate the roles that pollinators play or the intricacies and the interrelationships between the environment and all of the animals and insects and everything that exists around it, you know, so it's less about the content all the time. It's much more about making sure that they're just comfortable. You know, some people are terrified to be outside because of mosquitoes or poison ivy or ticks. Okay, that's fine. But you can be outside and prevent all of these things from happening, or at least mitigate the risks.
So again, a lot of that is just lessons for [00:21:00] the families, the caregivers, and the parents.
Christa Hein: And I love how that kind of early interaction with the families, the whole family can really set that trajectory for the family. As to like, now we are an outdoor family and you know, we can do all of these other things because we've gotten comfortable at the beginning.
I just love that.
Sarah Doyle: Exactly, exactly. And a lot of it is just gentle, slow handholding, getting families over that hump. Other families come in totally ready, like, let's do this, let's go. And I think that's great for families who are timid to see that there are families who are just like, yep, we're in.
You know, dirt is okay. Or, if a kid falls down and they get up and they're a little bit, their hands are dirty or their knees are scraped, that's okay. You know, obviously pay attention to it. And tend to them. But being outside can be incredibly invigorating, for little people, big people, all the people.
It's just an incredible place to be. I know myself when I'm not feeling well, the first place I wanna be is outside. So [00:22:00] it's just, it's therapeutic for so many people. And we have also noticed that we have a lot of kiddos coming who may not thrive in an indoor environment, may not thrive with the structures that a typical school setting might set up as scaffolding for kids who are neurodivergent, for example.
We're noticing that we have more kids coming with different diagnoses, because the outdoor space is so therapeutic for them. We're not a therapeutic program. Do not get me wrong, but we are trying to work with families as closely as possible to understand how this space can support their child and support their family.
Christa Hein: Ah, it's beautiful. So, with your afterschool programs, I see that kids register for sessions of multiple weeks. How do those ongoing experiences impact the students differently than maybe the one-off programs?
Sarah Doyle: Yeah, that's a great question. So we have, we've had a couple of incredible families that have just [00:23:00] continued to have their children engage with our programs.
So, we have a pack of forest friends who now come to one of our afterschool programs and it's fantastic. And they will just continue to come and continue to grow through the program. And we're actually trying to figure out how to continue to develop programs for kids as they age. Usually around fifth grade kids are way too busy and have way too many other things after school.
So, we're trying to figure out how to make those things happen. We have a small leaders in training program over the summertime to engage the upper middle school, younger high school age, things like that. So having kids come here for six weeks, nine weeks, 12 weeks, just gets them so much more comfortable and confident in the space.
It creates a relationship with the teachers and with the students, and creates a community within the, it's not a class, but we'll call it a class within the group that is very different than just coming here for a program, a one-off. One of the things that our youth programs manager feels very strongly about [00:24:00] is, this, oh, for lack of a better word, just having people come back.
Making sure that people come back to see the kids develop through the programming, but also for the program to develop with the child. So we're not going to have the exact same curriculum every year or every session. Also, we just can't, it's seasonal, so we can't do the same things we do in the fall that we do in the spring.
But we've started to engage with year-round programming where kids can be here in the fall, they can do a winter session and can do a spring session. And they don't have to be here for every single one of those sessions. But having them here for one or two of them year after year, it's really amazing to watch these kids grow.
And their confidence and their just, oh, it's just beautiful to see. It's really a magnificent thing to watch.
Christa Hein: So, then you also do programs at the other end of the age spectrum where you host senior teas and senior cooking classes.
So, what are your goals in connecting older adults with the farm environment?
Sarah Doyle: So, we have been truly lucky to receive grants for the senior [00:25:00] teas to be able to offer these senior teas to seniors in the community for free, which is huge.
Oftentimes we know our older adults are living on a fixed income and they can't just spend money willy-nilly. So we offer these programs for people -they come here, either by a van or drive here on their own, and they come and they have an incredible couple hour celebration. There are sometimes themes, sometimes it's just to be here. Farm Chef Kelsey puts out an amazing spread of finger sandwiches and we have all these different teas and fruits and cheeses and it's just beautiful to see and to witness.
And we've had to limit the number of times people can come. It's become so popular, you know, people can only take one ticket or can only be here once for however many - it's wild.
We have to limit the numbers that just because we can't have enough, we, we don't have enough space to have a hundred people in here, but we can try very easily to have 40 or 50 or 60. So, that's been an amazing opportunity for us just to continue [00:26:00] creating community within the senior population. And one of our staff members goes and works in one of the senior centers, does gardening classes with them and that sort of thing as well.
So it's not just having them come here, it's going to them as well. And Farm Chef Kelsey also does the senior cooking classes. We had an incredible intern years ago who worked on creating a recipe book for our aging adults, with recipe ideas for nutrients that they really need.
As we age, at least I can speak for myself, there's certain things that I need more than I needed it in my twenties. So, she did a beautiful job creating this cookbook, and Kelsey has continued that tradition by offering these cooking classes for them to come in. And how do you get B12 into your diet?
How do you get, you know, X, Y, and Z? And then they have the class and then they eat their lunch. And just another great opportunity for people to get together.
So, yeah, across the board we have other opportunities. We'll do walks with different senior groups where they will [00:27:00] do a full moon walk or they'll do a nature walk that perhaps is not as far out as the other nature walk might go instead of doing a two and a half mile hike, we might do a half mile hike somewhere along the way. So trying as much as we can. The one thing that is difficult around here is we try to be as accessible as possible, but there are trails that are just too difficult with walkers and wheelchairs and things like that.
And that goes for also children who are in wheelchairs and that sort of thing. So it is a little bit difficult, or in strollers. It is a little bit difficult to move around if you are not able to walk in the space.
Christa Hein : So, I wanna shift us to sustainability. I see that the farm is certified organic.
Was that a conscious transition from the farm when the conservancy was formed, or has that always been farmed sustainably?
Sarah Doyle: Oh, it's always been farmed sustainably. A lot of our practices that we employ are still based on sustainable practices that were done by [00:28:00] our Native, our Native peoples who were here.
Also just making sure that we're doing things to let the earth recover, making sure that we're trying to work in a space that, you know, it's not a huge amount of farming space. It's only about two, two and a half acres that is farmed. And what our farmer Adrian does with the space is amazing.
It's, it's mind blowing what she can do. But she's very aware of what needs to go where and how, and making sure that, again, that the earth has this space and the time to recover. So we're not just, nutrients need to be here and without the nutrients we're not gonna have an incredible crop.
And weather also has something to do with it. But yeah, that's just been a huge part of who we've been. And we work really hard at making sure that the certification stays up to date. And, obviously, but also just making sure that the public knows, you know, don't walk your dog down in our fields.
That's not certified organic any longer, you know? So, and making sure that the people who work with the food, we have so many volunteers making sure that they practice, as best as they [00:29:00] can to meet all of the criteria for working with certified organic food, you know, washing your hands and if you touch your phone, wash your hand again, things like that.
So we're creating food or growing food for people to eat, not just to sit there and look pretty. so we want to make sure it's healthy and well cared for as it can possibly be.
Christa Hein: And I see that you've also made a statement about sustainability by installing 172 solar panels on one of your historic barns.
So it sounds like you really put sustainability at the forefront of what visitors and students learn at the farm.
Sarah Doyle: Yeah. And we're also really lucky - we're going to be able to get some more solar panels on our new building, the All Seasons barn. And that's an incredible new opportunity for the farm just to completely go off the grid if we, if that's the right term. I don't know if that's the right term.
Christa Hein: Nice. So, in the last few minutes that we have left, I want to ask for some advice from you. Coming from a teaching background rather than a [00:30:00] farming background, what encouragement would you give to listeners who may feel like imposters because they don't come from a farming background, but they either are or want to be farm educators.
Sarah Doyle: It's a great question. I am an imposter. So, I think the trick is not to be afraid to try and not to be afraid to be vulnerable. Those are the two things - that asking for help when you don't understand this, that, or the other. Not being afraid to admit you don't know the answer. These are just practices that I did in my classroom too with my students.
You know, we're not, we're not super human. We're just humans. And if you're curious, go check it out, volunteer. See if there's space that is available for you to be a teacher's aid in an outdoor classroom, or volunteer in an outdoor classroom where the pressure isn't on you and you're just thinking, oh, maybe this is interesting, and get your toes wet and maybe don't jump in full force like I did.
But you sure can if you're feeling up for an adventure and a little bit of a change.
Christa Hein: And do you have any [00:31:00] advice for educators who are thinking about starting or growing a farm education program or maybe lessons learned about working with community partners that you think others should know?
Sarah Doyle: That's a great question.
I think patience and communication are two of the biggest pieces of that recipe for success. Listening to what your community is looking for. We can't just assume that, oh, I want to do this so everybody else will want to do this. But understanding what people around you are looking for, making sure that you're comfortable putting yourself out there into a space that you may not be completely familiar with.
Maybe just making connections in ways that are not just only farm-based, but making personal connections and just trying your hardest to be, like I said, patient and communicate, letting people know that you are trying this program and it's a pilot and let's give it a shot and let's be brave together.
Things like that. Yeah. I think those are some, some pieces that what might be helpful.
Christa Hein: Great advice. Sarah, thank [00:32:00] you so much for sharing your story today.
Sarah Doyle: Thank you so much for having me.
Christa Hein: Before we close, where can listeners learn more about Wright-Locke Farm and your programs?
Sarah Doyle: We have a very busy website, www.wlfarm.org, Wright-Locke Farm, the wlfarm.org.
And we also have a newsletter that goes out every Tuesday. Feel free to sign up for that newsletter. In there is all of the latest and greatest programming, what's going on in the community. A very robust publication that goes out every Tuesday, so definitely sign up for that if you're interested.
Christa Hein: Are you on social media as well?
Sarah Doyle: Oh yes, we are. Great. We are. That is not my domain, but we definitely are on social media. We're on Instagram, we are on Facebook. We're on all the socials.
Christa Hein: Perfect. Sarah, thank you again for sharing your story and for all beautiful work that Wright-Locke Farm is doing to connect your community to farming.
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