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Although she grew up on a row crop farm, specialty crops and agritourism have become passions for Kendra Meyer, who serves on the small farms team with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

Meyer started with ISU Extension and Outreach in 2016 as an Extension Program Specialist in value-added agriculture, after graduating with her bachelor of science in agricultural studies degree in the fall of 2015. Today, she coordinates the Visit Iowa Farms program at Iowa State and is the agritourism coordinator with the Food, Farm and Enterprise Development program.

She said one of the things she most enjoys about her position is providing valuable resources to small farmers and specialty crop growers.

“It’s not as common to be a specialty producer in Iowa so listening to the producers and continuing to provide those resources and information is really what drives me,” she said.

Meyer is also the executive secretary for the Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association and helps with her family’s farm in southeast Iowa, along with her husband, Tad, and their daughter, Abrah, 3.

In addition to helping other producers, she enjoys learning from them, as well.

“One of my favorite parts is getting to go to people’s farms, especially agritourism places,” she said. “I just love to see everyone’s creative side come out because everyone’s farm is so different.”

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