Dick Hakes
Special to the Press-Citizen
This Thursday night, April 8, Mary Swander will enter her downtown Kalona office to oversee yet another of her frequent and diverse efforts to connect the two worlds she loves.
Sustainable farming and art.
That evening, farmers from Iowa and beyond will gather online for a Zoom event she has informally titled “Mapping Our Farm with Storytelling” sponsored by the national AgArts nonprofit she co-founded a dozen years ago.
“I’ve lined up a panel of four farmers to talk about a story of relevance on their farm,” she told me. “It could be about a location, piece of equipment, tool, history anything that is important to them.”
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