Cow girl: Marlene Strickland earns Florida's top agricultural honor.it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have been a wild ride for Sarasota's Marlene Strickland. As president of the 2,000-member American National CattleWomen, she travels the country promoting the nutritional value of beef and talking agricultural issues with state and national legislators. But it was her life's work Life's Work is a sitcom that aired from 1996 to 1997 on the American Broadcasting Company channel that starred Lisa Ann Walter as Lisa Ann Minardi Hunter, the assistant district attorney who had a husband named Kevin Hunter in 4-H that recently earned Strickland Florida's Woman of the Year in Agriculture award. She and her husband, Don, who live on a five-and-a-half-acre ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. in eastern Sarasota County, have been 4-H leaders for 30 years. They help youngsters raise animals and tend vegetable gardens, and along the way they impart values, including good land stewardship stewardship the occupation of being a steward or custodian. Referring to animals it implies the caring sort of relationship based on an acceptance of the need to include the rights of animals in overall plans to maintain financial viability. , and educate about job opportunities in agriculture. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I'm concerned that children don't understand how they get food processed--they think they go to Publix or Winn-Dixie to get it," says Strickland, who was raised on her uncle's 3,600-acre ranch off Fruitville Road. "But there are jobs they can get in the agriculture and beef industry that they don't even know about." Strickland points with pride to her seven-year-old grandson Grandson (gräNsôN`), Ger. Grandsee, town (1990 pop. 2,473), Vaud canton, W Switzerland, at the southwestern end of the Lake of Neuchâtel. . "He told me, 'Grandma, we have to do something about these hurricanes; they've made it too wet, and my tomatoes are not doing well at all.' I think that's fantastic." PHOTOGRAPHY BY J.B. MCCOURTNEY |
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