Earth’s Garden LLC
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Christa Hein: Hey there, welcome to the Farm Educator’s 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. In this podcast, you'll hear real stories and practical advice from farm educators all across the country, people who are creating change through their programs in creative and inspiring ways.
Whether you're dreaming about starting your first program, are already knee deep in your own farm education work, or are just curious about how others are impacting their communities through farm education, you're in the right place. [00:01:00] Let's dig in.
Christa Hein: Hi, welcome back to the Farm Educator’s Roadmap. Today I'm talking with Dr. Camille Lewis, founder of Earth's Garden in Tallahassee, Florida. An urban farm and education business that blends agriculture, STEM learning, and community work in a really unique way.
Camille brings together her background as a classroom teacher, her roots in a multi-generational farming family, and her work in higher education to create programs that go beyond farm visits into curriculum consulting and helping both families and schools build their own growing systems. We're going to talk about how she built this model, how it works as a business, and what it looks like to create something that sits at the intersection of education, agriculture, and community impact.
Camille, thanks so much for joining me.
Dr. Camille Lewis: Thank you so much for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Christa Hein: Absolutely. So, I always like to [00:02:00] start at the beginning so we can understand how this all came to be. I took a look at your LinkedIn profile and your career and educational path is so interesting, and I also read that you grew up with a family history of farming. Can you briefly share that journey with us, where your interest in education came from, and when you started to feel like education and agriculture needed to come together in your work?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. So, I come from a family of educators. My mom was an art teacher, my dad was a film professor and an English teacher, and my grandfather was an agriculture professor at Florida A&M University back in the forties and fifties. And agriculture's always been a part of my life.
So, my grandfather and his father all grew up on the farm and growing food was very much a normal part of my childhood. When I was a child, I thought everybody had the task during dinner time, while their mom was cooking, to go outside and pull some oregano or thyme or rosemary. [00:03:00] So, this ability to easily identify plants, like, the aspect of growing to feed yourself was very normalized to me.
And it was when I became an adult that I realized that was not a normal childhood and a lot of my peers did not share that childhood or those experiences with me. Which is how I got into being interested in teaching folks about growing food.
So, to answer your question about education, my background is in education. I am a teacher by trade. I got my undergraduate degree in elementary education and became a classroom teacher. After that, I taught second grade, fifth grade, dabbled in middle school for a little while, all while raising my children in my father's urban farm.
And it was the experience of working my day job, being stressed out, and then leaving my day job, and wanting to just be outside in the garden as kind of like a decompress, you know, come back down to earth from the stress of teaching. Where I realized that my true passion in life was to, instead of teaching in the [00:04:00] classroom, be outside teaching in the garden.
Christa Hein: And so, what then got you into the psychology route that I saw in your educational background?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Yeah, I've always been fascinated with psychology, like how people think, why people think the way that they do. How do students learn the best? What are some strategies that really get youth engaged in a topic or a setting? So, the psychology came just because it's the interest of mine. I did get my master's in community psychology, and I think that kind of stemmed from my frustration as a teacher. I had this desire to make such a huge impact in the lives of my students.
I taught at Title One schools. A lot of the kids that I taught were struggling with different things in their home life. And my thought once I realized I couldn't change the world as a teacher, which most beginning teachers do, was I realized that the challenges my students were facing weren't just in the classroom. They were at [00:05:00] home, right? So, access to food, family dynamics, safety in the community.
So, I went to get my master's in community psychology with the thought of if I can't change the lives in the classroom, maybe if I work in the community, I can change the lives in the community. So that kind of grew to me getting my PhD in educational psychology as I matured in my career, and myself, and my understanding of the dynamics of the world. And in my quest to use education as a means to shape community and to shape home life and family life and learning in children. So, to use the psychology of learning in order to do that in a more effective and efficient way.
Christa Hein: So then where did that lead you to beginning the Earth's Garden program? Where did that come in your envisioning what the work that you wanted to do, how it would show up?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. Earth’s Garden was founded during COVID. I'm [00:06:00] one of those COVID businesses that kind of boomed during that time when COVID hit and people were scrambling.
So, I live in a neighborhood where there are no grocery stores. We have corner stores and we have kind of, like, off-brand stores, but access to fresh food has always been the issue. It's a food apartheid where I live. So, the fear that most people felt during COVID of, you go into the grocery store and the shelves are empty and the trucks aren't shipping food into the grocery store, so people don't know if they can eat. That was amplified in my immediate community, because not only did the stores in my city not have food, we didn't have stores in my community to have the food.
So, there was this mass panic. So, in a response to that, I started going from house to house in my neighborhood building gardens and teaching folks how to grow their own food. And what I found was when you can control your food source, that anxiety about food decreased.
And that was how I got through COVID. I went [00:07:00] house to neighborhood, and eventually to school to school and institution growing, building gardens, working with these families year round, season through season of, how do you pivot from spring to summer to winter. How do you get through these seasons? How do you deal with challenges?
We had Zoom calls where we would all dissect and discuss different pests that are eating their gardens and what are the best way to deals with this. And using the resources that you have around your house, what are some natural ways we can combat some of the challenges you're dealing with?
So, Earth's Garden really started out of a need for the community to have access to fresh food.
Christa Hein: Oh, that's amazing. So, for someone who's never heard of Earth's Garden, how would you describe what you do and what your organization offers?
Dr. Camille Lewis: It's an agriculture and environmental consulting company. So, we work with schools, institutions, families, individuals in building systems and programs that can enable youth to have positive [00:08:00] experiences outside, and that teach individuals and families how to grow their own food.
Christa Hein: So, you work with individual families. I saw you also work with homeschool communities, families, and schools. So, did one of those evolve first, or did they all kind of come together?
Dr. Camille Lewis: I think I started working with families first. It was during COVID when I started engaging with families. And because I was a teacher during that time, and because of my background in education, the most natural step was to start working with schools. So, I would work with preschools, with private schools, and helping them put together a farm to school program.
That has evolved to me consulting with schools and doing a full consulting farm to school program. So, I'll train the teachers during in-service. Oftentimes I will identify one point person in the school that will go through an intensive training with me year round, where I'll teach the technical aspects of growing foods so they can be the [00:09:00] onsite expert. I'll co-teach with the teachers, do some strategic planning, help them evaluate their systems. What's working, what's not working, and help to shape that school so they can independently and sustainably run a farm to school program.
And then, because I think of my education and my exposure and work in higher education, I have also morphed that to working with institutions organizations. I have put together environmental based internship programs for universities. I have helped to build curriculum and asynchronous classes for colleges who are doing ag workforce development work.
So, it's kind of morphed, and I've been able to utilize all of my skill sets to really work with different organizations, and meet them where they are at, and support them in different areas of needs that they may have.
Christa Hein: That is amazing. And then what does the work look like from a family perspective? Not necessarily from the client side, but more from [00:10:00] your side as the business owner. What are you doing with those families and then how do they even find you, or how do you find them?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Yeah, so, when I work with families, it looks different depending on the family. But a typical family would be we have a consultation. So, I come to their house, and we talk about their needs.
Do you have just a porch you're trying to grow on? Do you have 20 acres behind your house that you're trying to transform into a homestead? What are your needs? How many people are you trying to feed? What does your time look like? Are you at home full-time? Do you work a full-time job? And you have teenagers who have extracurricular activities, so, what does the workload look like that you have to commit to growing?
And based on that conversation, it can go a couple different ways. I could come out and independently build their full garden for them. So, I'll build the beds, I'll till the ground, I will give them the whole service. Sometimes they just want advice on how to do it [00:11:00] themselves. And what pretty much always happens is we have a lasting relationship. So, I will give them, I have a booklet that has information on seed spacing, like your typical growing information. So, I'll give them resources throughout the year upfront. I'll give them a stack of resources and then as needed, I'll send them resources.
They have access to me to ask questions. We host in Tallahassee some community events where we often have education going on. So, whether that's seed saving, we had a grow where you are workshop, we had a cooking demo just this past weekend. So, I'll bring folks out to these events where they can learn from other experts besides me. But I helped to cultivate a community that they are connected with other people who are on the same path that they are on, and they can utilize for support.
Christa Hein: That is an amazing - it's just an amazing resource to be able to give people that step-by-step plan and then that support as they go through, and from [00:12:00] the family level, to the school level, to the institution level. It's just amazing.
So, along with all of this, you mentioned the physical side of what you're doing. So, I wanted to ask about the land that you're growing on. So, are you working any of your own land? Is it just client sites or is it a mix of both?
Dr. Camille Lewis: It's a mix of both. So, my dad and I co-own an urban organic farm that's in Tallahassee, and we sell primarily to a local CSA. And our crops vary. We were doing strawberries for a couple years, almost exclusively, but had some issues with the supplier we were getting our plugs from.
And we were doing okra last year. I don't know if you're familiar with the jassid pests that have come up into Florida from South America and Asia and destroyed 50% of the crops last year. But we grow for ourselves to consume the food, and then also we sell to a CSA. And then I grow at several other sites. I support other sites that are growing.
I'm also an extension agent. [00:13:00] So the extension center where I work is 78 acres, and we have several plots out there that we grow. I support schools and a couple of other organizations. Florida A&M University, I worked very closely with their Agri Ecology Center as they were building out their mini farm. So, I grow with my family and then I support growing spaces all over the city.
Christa Hein: So, as an entrepreneur, how would you describe your business model? Because it's not just a farm and it's not just education either.
Dr. Camille Lewis: Yeah, it's grown over the years, and it continues to shift and grow. And I've stopped expecting myself to stay within one lane. At one point I was very focused on I want to be a farmer and I want to make money from my land. So, we make our own compost. I was selling soil mixes for a while, and that was very labor intensive. And I realized that my time was better spent, or I could make more money, just consulting.
So, using my intelligence [00:14:00] versus my physical body and labor-intensive ways to make money. So, I consider myself a consulting company. The services that I offer vary so much that I like to say I meet clients where they are. And we can discuss your needs and my skill sets and see where we add up, because I do have a very diverse set of skills, just being a psychologist, an educational psychologist, being a farmer, having that extensive background in education that I just say I'm a consultant.
Christa Hein: Which seems to make sense why you didn't choose the route that a lot of other farm education organizations choose as a nonprofit, because it sounds like your knowledge and experience is the main commodity of the consulting business then.
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. The objective of when I started and I decided to pursue this path seriously was to make money. Just because of all the sectors of work I've done in agriculture, I know there's money in agriculture.
I know there's money in [00:15:00] education and that oftentimes if you look at a school, the teacher who is the one doing the most work, is usually not the one making the most money. The same thing if you look at a large farm, that farm worker that is coming on a day-to-day basis usually is not the one bringing home the biggest check while they're oftentimes doing some of the most important work.
So, in thinking about my business and want it to be sustainable, because I also have a family. I have young children. I like to spend time with them. I wanted to build a business model that was sustainable. So, I decided to go for the for-profit.
I oftentimes partner with nonprofits. I get consulted out by nonprofits. We have a youth program, a summer camp program, and it's actually a year-round environmental education program that is run through a nonprofit and I'm consulted out to build the curriculum and train the staff. So, it's worked out really well for me.
Christa Hein: So, with your revenue streams: the teaching, the [00:16:00] consulting, the garden installation, the training, which pieces of those have become the most sustainable?
Dr. Camille Lewis: I would say the consulting.
So, working with larger organizations, nonprofits, institutions, and supporting them in grant writing, in curriculum, and program development. So how do you build a sustainable farm to school program, right? What does that look like from the collaboration with community partners? So, helping to connect them with community partners, helping to write grants, helping to evaluate the grants. Pull data for them and have some of these data chats.
So, I think the consulting, and building systems and programs around environmental education and agriculture education, has been the most successful and the most profitable. And that has kind of taken me in that direction.
Christa Hein: So, I'm curious, because it takes so much effort to start something from the very beginning. Especially something that you've done where it isn't [00:17:00] a model that you're replicating, you've created this model. So, what helped you move from this, like, I have this idea into actually building something? Can you just share a little bit of that history or background or motivation that got you to actually being able to launch this?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Yeah, I think I launched in a unique time, because it was during COVID, so I wasn't going to work or going to school, or really going anywhere, right? So, I had that time to really just dive in, dedicate myself fully to the work.
And then utilizing my resources. I joined a mastermind group very early on with some other entrepreneurs. And to be in a group of like, “Hey, this is how I get contracts.” How do you write an invoice? How do you write a proposal? And being around these groups of individuals who are actively working towards building their own business, that was super, super helpful. Particularly in the beginning where I knew nothing about running a [00:18:00] business.
Since then, I've continued to build a team. I have a virtual assistant who is irreplaceable. She keeps me organized. She helps build the systems that I need to be successful. I have worked with somebody to build content for me. So just really putting myself around other entrepreneurs who are not even necessarily doing this environmental education work, but who understand what it means to build a business. What it means to network, to put yourself out there.
And that has really helped to move me along is being in community with other individuals who are chasing similar dreams.
Christa Hein: Absolutely. I would second that on my own journey as well. It's just invaluable to learn from others who have gone that route, even if it's in a completely different sector, still, there's so many of those processes that are the same.
So, with you working at this intersection of education, agriculture, community, it's not really common. So, do [00:19:00] you find that people can immediately understand what you're offering or do you have to do a lot of background explaining and positioning?
Dr. Camille Lewis: It depends. I think in the education space, it's easier for me to say I help schools build programs to support the standards and curriculum around environmental education or farm to school programming with kids. That's pretty simple. And I think I explain my services a little bit different depending on who I talk to.
So, the way I talk to a university would be very different than the way I talk to a family that's looking for me to build a garden in their backyard. So, I explain my services differently based on my audience, and explaining them in a very clear and concise way has also been a skill that has been honed over the years, because my business has transformed so much over the years.
What I was doing five years ago is not what I'm doing today. What my business looked like three years [00:20:00] ago is not what it looks like today. So, it's constantly evolving. As I, myself, as a professional and a business owner, am also evolving and the narrative that I share, I think, tweaks and changes a little bit along the way.
Christa Hein: Yeah. So once people understand what you offer, the next layer is really how you teach, because that's where your background just brings something so unique. So, you talk a lot about integrating STEM education with agriculture. What does that look like in practice when you're working with students?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Yeah, so it looks like, with the organization that I am partnering with, they typically have an objective that they want the children to learn over a specified amount of time. So, I was working with the summer camp a couple of years ago, and it is an engineering summer camp, so they wanted the students to learn aquaponics and hydroponics.
So, what that looks like in theory, in practice, is I'm pulling all of these skill sets I learned from the classroom, right? So how to ask engaging questions, how [00:21:00] to do inquiry-based learning, how to have as much of the learning be hands-on as possible. We have a saying at my job where it's learned by doing. So, I don't want to give you a paper to read about it. I want you to experience it, make mistakes, learn from it, document your mistakes, document your learning, and then try it again. So, a lot of my teaching style is very hands-on.
One of my research interests during my PhD program was translational research. So how do you take these really complex scientific topics and disseminate them or translate them in a way that a 9-year-old can understand. And that is a lot of what I do is breaking down these topics, using visuals, using simpler vocabulary or relatable vocabulary, giving them real life examples, but really getting the kids to do the activity as many things as they can touch as possible.
Christa Hein: So, I'm curious, how has your background in educational psychology shaped the way [00:22:00] that you design your programs and work with learners?
Dr. Camille Lewis: That's a great question. I think education and teaching are so ingrained into who I am, that the psychology background and the experience getting a PhD in educational psychology gave me theories and language to some things that I already knew.
So, I would say it helps in communicating the impact of the programs that I do. It helps in understanding how data can lead to more funding for the programs that I do. So, I think on a systems level it helps at a higher level to understand the long-term impact of what I'm doing and explain it in an academic way for the funders and academic audiences that need all that jargon to justify spending money on agriculture education.
Christa Hein: Yeah. So, you're not just teaching the [00:23:00] individual families and not just working with schools, but you're also helping these schools and communities build their own systems. So how do those partnerships typically start? Are they finding you, are you doing outreach to them? What is some of the behind the scenes that you've done to create those partnerships?
Dr. Camille Lewis: A lot of it is through relationships, so having preexisting relationships. I think early on with the institutions and schools I work with through a contact, a warm lead, I had a preexisting relationship or somebody connected me with that school. Once those projects have successfully been completed, a lot of it has been word of mouth.
So, I heard you did this at this school, can you come do this at our school? Or I'll be on a podcast such as this and somebody will hear my story and say, “Hey, I think you'd be a great fit for this opportunity.” So, I think the more work that I've done, just the word gets out [00:24:00] that there's somebody who does this work.
Some of the organizations I work with have this need and they don't know it's a need that can be filled until they learn about me and my services. So, they might have been trying to implement environmental education for years, but didn't know that there's an organization out there that will come in and set everything up and set the systems up and evaluate it for you.
So, a lot of it has been word of mouth. And then just using the internet and social media to put myself out there. And people will learn about my services and oftentimes contact me, so I don't necessarily do a lot of advertising for my services. The opportunities really just seem to come with the more work that I do in this field.
Christa Hein: Oh, that's ideal. So, some of your work then working with schools is helping create training for those teachers who will be implementing the curriculum. So how do you help teachers feel confident using the garden as a real teaching [00:25:00] tool? Because some of them, this may be their first experience, and I'm sure a lot of people are coming with discomfort. So, what is it that you found helps?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. So, we named the discomfort first. I live in Florida. It gets really hot down here. We have a very diverse ecosystem, so we have a ton of bugs and insects and often things that adults aren't comfortable with. So, a lot of adults don't like holding earthworms or being outside when it's hot, or being outside when it's rainy, or being outside when it's really too cold.
So, we start with naming our discomforts and kind of thinking about how do we get these beliefs and feelings. So, what experiences from your childhood led to you feeling this way, or what lack of experience led to you thinking about being outside in the viewpoint that you do? And then it's almost like exposure therapy. We then go outside and they learn it's not so bad.
I think a lot of the apprehension from teachers comes from lack of knowledge as well. So, I was [00:26:00] working with a group of teachers and they were like, “Miss Camille, we just don't like to touch the plants, because I don't know if I'm picking a weed or a plant, or if I'm going to break something if I touch it.” It's teaching them the more you know about gardening, the more empowered you are to garden.
So, a lot of the training is taking the teachers outside and doing these activities, growing with them so that they feel like I know how to do this now, I'm not going to break something. Getting them okay with the learning process. It's okay to not know. It's okay to make a mistake. If you kill a plant, I promise you, you can plant another one. And the kids are going to learn something about it in the process. So that's a big part of it.
And then the second, larger part of it I think is ongoing support. I am very much against a one-time pop-in training with teachers. As a former teacher, it oftentimes is not helpful, because I might have lingering questions and two hours isn't enough to transform the mindset of a teacher. [00:27:00] So I'm a huge proponent of bring me in at the beginning of the school year. Let me set the teachers up for success, let me give them a teaching manual. If they need lessons, print it out for them ready to go.
Let's start there but then bring me in to check in with the teachers. What went well, what didn't go well? You're struggling with this still. How can we address this specific concern of yours? How do we keep these kids safe outside? Do you have a kid that got stung by a bee and a kid got their foot ate up by ants? What are some things that we can do so you feel more comfortable now bringing the kids outside? How can we prepare you to help prepare the kids?
So, I'm a huge proponent of the training needs to be ongoing. Don't just train a teacher one time and send them out there to do environmental education with kids.
Christa Hein: And what a bonus for the teachers that you've been in their shoes and you've sat where they've sat, and so you kind of know those challenges and struggles that they're dealing with.
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. Particularly new teachers. As [00:28:00] a first year or even like fifth year teacher, you're dealing with lesson plans, expectations from your leadership, parents, behavior challenges in the classroom. Children learn differently, right? So, all these abilities that children have, how do you integrate and manage and juggle all of that while still instilling joy in the children for going outside?
Because I think if you can get both teachers and children, if you can get teachers to just enjoy being outside and find connection to being outside, then they'll learn more about whatever is outside. Whatever plant or garden or spring or watershed, they'll learn about it and teach about it. I believe it's the same exact thing with kids. If we start with connection and teach children to just enjoy being outside, enjoy having your hands in the dirt, then they'll learn the science behind it. They'll want to.
Christa Hein: Yep. So, beyond schools, your work also reaches into the broader community in some powerful ways. You've been part of [00:29:00] this collaborative, the Brilliant Resilience summer camp. Can you tell us how that came together and what the vision is behind it, and then how that kind of partnership fits into your overall business and mission?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. So, speaking of connection, Brilliant Resilience is a youth empowerment program that builds the resilience of urban youth in Tallahassee. And it does this through building connection with the outdoors.
So, this program has been going on for about four years. It's a yearlong program where we have cohorts of Saturday schools throughout the school year. And then we have a six-week summer camp during the summer where the kids learn about the environment and they learn to advocate for the environment. So, a lot of it starts with building that connection.
So we go to springs, not to bring a microscope and study the insects in the water, but we go to enjoy the springs. A lot of them had never been to some of the springs or lakes or rivers that surround Tallahassee. We go to farms [00:30:00] and they really build a connection and a love for the outdoors. And it's from that connection that they build these memories, these core memories, and then they want to start taking care of the places that they've gone to.
And then they start asking questions. How can we preserve this for future generations? How can I make sure nobody litters here? What are some things that we can do to advocate for these spaces that we now feel ownership over? Because we see ourselves in these spaces. So that has been a beautiful program.
We have a lot of the same kids that we have been able to grow with the program. They have done different advocacy projects around environmental education in this region of Florida, and have just really built a beautiful perspective of the outdoors.
Christa Hein: And what age range is that for?
Dr. Camille Lewis: It is third through eighth grade. We have about 50 kids that participate on a daily basis, and we employ high school students as junior camp counselors. So, they go through a yearlong training as well. In [00:31:00] addition to being at the camp, they have some additional training - learning how to teach kayaking, be a kayak instructor.
We've gone to oyster farms, and they've learned about different workforce development within agriculture and environmental space. So, we have about 50 kids third through eighth grade in addition to at any time a minimum of 10 junior camp counselors.
Christa Hein: Oh, that's amazing. So, for the people who are listening who are building or dreaming about their own program, there's so much they can learn from your journey. When you look back at building Earth's Garden from the ground up, what were some of the biggest challenges that you had to figure out along the way?
Dr. Camille Lewis: There were so many. What were some of the biggest ones? I think maybe in the beginning it was figuring out what am I good at and what service do I want to offer? And you know, I've kind of mentioned I jumped around a lot. I did a lot of different things before I landed on, okay, this is something that's sustainable, [00:32:00] that I'm good at, that there's a market for, and that I could actually grow in this space.
So, identifying my service was one challenge. And then all the growing pains that I think anybody has when they're starting a business. Like, where do I advertise? How do, or even like being comfortable, maybe, putting myself out there. Because there was a time when I was hesitant to say I'm an entrepreneur or I have my own company.
So, growing that confidence in myself that I have, the skillset to actually pursue this. Once people started paying for my services, I was like, you want to pay me for what? To take the child outside and garden with them? Of course. So being comfortable in that and building my own confidence, I think, was another essential challenge I had to get through.
Christa Hein: So, for the person who might want to build something beyond farm visits into the curriculum consulting world that you're in, what would you suggest they think about first or any other advice that would be helpful to share?
Dr. Camille Lewis: I would learn about the needs [00:33:00] of your target demographic. So, if you want to work with schools, schools oftentimes have specific needs. Talk to the principals. Talk to the leaders in the schools. Talk to the curriculum specialists and ask them, “What do you need? How can I support?” And then figure out how you can morph your skillset and draw from your various skills to give them what it is that they need.
But a lot of what I do is solve problems. So, when I am talking with somebody, my question is always, “What is the problem? What do you need help with? And how can I help?”
Christa Hein: Great advice. Yep. Find the need to help solve it.
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely.
Christa Hein: So, to wrap up, how can people find you online or follow your work if they want to learn more?
Dr. Camille Lewis: Absolutely. I'm on Instagram at Earth’s Garden LLC. You can visit my website, which is www.earthsgardenllc.com, and you can always shoot me an email at EarthsGardenllc@gmail.com.
Christa Hein: Great Camille. I think what really stands out is the way that [00:34:00] you've built something that goes beyond teaching directly. You've created a model where your curriculum, your guidance, your system allows other people to do this work, too. And that expands your impact in just such an amazing way. Thank you so much for sharing how you've built what you've built and what it all looks like behind the scenes.
Thank you so much.
Dr. Camille Lewis: Thank you for having me.
Christa Hein: Absolutely. To our listeners, if there's something to take away from this, it's that farm education doesn't have to be limited by the programs you can personally lead. There are ways to grow your impact by designing systems, curriculum, and support that helps others carry the work forward.
If you enjoyed this episode, make sure you're following the podcast and take a minute to leave a review. It really helps more people find these conversations. And as always, keep teaching, keep growing, and keep connecting people to the land.
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