Community Health Has Many Facets - High Plains Journal
Communities are only as healthy as their members.
During the recent Farm Foundation Forum, Reviving Rural: Agriculture as the Heartbeat of Healthy Communities, a conversation about reviving rural health, prosperity and resilience was discussed by a slate of panelists.
Featured speakers included Julia Freedgood, senior fellow at American Farmland Trust; Xochitl Torres Small, the 15th U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association; and Jeff Winton, founder and chairman of Rural Minds, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing mental health awareness and resources.
This article features Morgan and Winton’s thoughts on the subject. An earlier article detailed what Freedgood and Small had to say about protecting and enhancing rural communities and agriculture in those areas.