Twenty-First Century Local Food Farmers in North Texas: An Evaluation of Farming Methods, Best Practices, and Common Struggles Page: III
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and foremost, I would like to thank my research participants. Without this
community of North Texas farmers to learn from, I would not be writing this thesis today. But
my gratitude goes much further than that; the farmers I met and interviewed for this project
helped me to see the world through different eyes; they helped me to see solutions in so many
things that they have done, and they allowed me to enter their personal lives, asking as many
questions as I could muster along the way. I would especially like to thank Sue Newhouse,
owner of Aunt Sue's Barn and my client in this research. Her openness to working with a
researcher, her guidance during this research, and her confidence in my work have made her an
invaluable part of this two-year journey.
I also would like to thank my husband, my children, and my closest friends. Without the
emotional support and unconditional love that I have found in them all, I would never have been
able to find my way in life, let alone conduct this research. I am thankful for their encouragement
and guidance throughout this process.
I am thankful to my advisors for their guidance through graduate school and through this
transitional phase in my life which became my thesis. I excel at confounding simplicity, and I
know that my advisors were at times struck by how I can somehow always find the most difficult
way to do anything. I am thankful for their patience, and my own, with my evolution through this
thesis.
This project would not have been completed without the opportunity and experience of
being a graduate student. It is strange to study culture while being immersed into the culture of
graduate school, especially as a non-traditional student who has seen something of the world. I
feel that the experience that I had during this program helped me to grow into the person that Iiii
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McFarland, Kelly. Twenty-First Century Local Food Farmers in North Texas: An Evaluation of Farming Methods, Best Practices, and Common Struggles, thesis, December 2019; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609143/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .