Loan Officer by Day, Blogger by Night

You may have read the article on the front page of the Delmarva Farmer, but we’re pretty proud that our loan officer, Cara Sylvester was featured.  As a MidAtlantic Farm Credit loan officer, farm wife, and mother it’s hard to believe that she finds time to sit down and blog.

When Cara first began her blog, “…Story Worth Telling,” in 2008, she focused mostly on her life in general, touching on farming here and there.  Recently she has begun focusing on agriculture and has launched “Farm Women Fridays” featuring local farm women and the work they do on and off the farm.

The idea for her featured blogs came from her volunteer work with CommonGround, a corn and soybean check-off funded national initiative aimed at starting conversations and making connections between the women who grow food and the women who buy it.

Her goal is for people to feel like they know her, through her combination of agriculture-related blogs and personal stories. She says she keeps the tone informal and leaves the technical jargon and research statistics to other bloggers.  Cara says, “The more people that read it, the more they will understand the people behind the farms.”

Her goal is to run the “Farm Women Fridays” series through Labor Day, provided she has enough women willing to be featured.  Anyone wishing to suggest someone for the series can comment on her blog site, storyworthtelling.blogspot.com, or write to her Twitter account, @carabecca.

Kudos, Cara!  And we look forward to reading more about local farm women in your blog.