Whenever I travel, my favorite memories are always the unplanned hicups and mixing with the locals. Rewind to VALOR session 1.0 to understand our personality types, and how deviation from the plan = BIG fun for me. The absolute best stories usually involve some sort of chaos - those are the ones I remember at… Continue reading Chicken or Frogger Lessons
The last time I posted, post-Florida and pre-Vietnam, I spoke about the gift of perspective while traveling. After 24 straight hours of travel time yesterday, the VALOR fellows walked off a plane (some more awake than others) and into a country and culture vastly different than our normal. Today began with a trip to the… Continue reading Lessons from Around the World
Ah…….the joy of international travel. Right about now, the VALOR Class II Fellows are wrapping up work on the farm finishing blogs from their U.S. Regional trip to Florida packing and weighing their luggage spending time with loved ones gathering their earplugs and favorite sleep aids for a 15 hour flight and praying they don’t get… Continue reading The eve of International travel – VALOR Class II travels to Vietnam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4iNrHgLIAg Honky Tonk Freeway, the revolutionary film that started the '80s film renaissance, evokes the truly unique importance America imparts on wonderment and awe. Carefully depicting the beauty and class with which Florida has cultivated their own flair for exhibition, Honky Tonk Freeway sets the mood for any excursion into the Sunshine State. The agriculture… Continue reading Size Isn’t Everything, But It Sure Is Important
What do you think of when you think of when you think about Agriculture in Florida? Citrus groves and alligator hunting come to mind pretty fast if you watch too much Discovery channel, but as the Valor class on their last trip found out, there is a lot more to agriculture in Florida than you… Continue reading Florida Agriculture: What do you think of?
#ValortakesFL was the latest hashtag reference describing our most recent excursion. This session landed us in sunny central Florida. Here we were emersed in local agricultural, political, and ecological life. A few things are well known about Florida; it's hot, it's humid, it's a popular desitination of the grey nomads, The Villages (key annoying jingle… Continue reading ABC’s of Florida: Alligators, Beef, & Crackers (or citrus)
...but it will probably seem like it is whilst sitting in an aeroplane. In a little over 2 weeks the VALOR fellows of Class 2 will find themselves together once again, en route to Vietnam for a look at their way of life, and how it is affected by both local and global ag policy… Continue reading 15 Hours is really not that long..
Do you know what I'm scared of? I'm scared of car wrecks, things on fire that aren't supposed to be, and a stranger hiding in my house when I get home at night. Do you know what I'm not scared of? The food on my plate. I am not the least bit concerned about the… Continue reading Legit Things to be Scared Of
Leaving your county, or state, or country (as the case will be shortly for the VALOR fellows) imparts a gift of perspective. Not a gift to be taken lightly, it takes processing and production by the user in order to create anything of value. I can travel to another state or country, but if I… Continue reading The Gift
VALOR Class II expanded their horizons with a six-day November trip to Florida, their eighth of twelve seminars. And while there is no doubt about the diversity of Agriculture in our own Commonwealth, seeing a small slice of Florida's Agricultural diversity was eye-opening. Comparing the two states further reveals some major differences. Florida represents… Continue reading #VALORtakesFL
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