New website launched for distressed producers
The topics of suicide and mental health and how they apply to life on the family farm, are being addressed through a new website.
The Do More Agriculture Foundation was created in part by Kim Keller, who farms near Melfort. Keller’s interest in helping farmers began in 2015 with a T-shirt campaign. The proceeds went to a farmers stress line. Last June, Keller received a distressing phone call.
“He (the caller) had actually just lost a farming client to suicide and he was looking for help, help for the family who had just lost their family member as well as other farmers he thought might be struggling,” she said.
Not knowing how to help, Keller said she put out a message on Twitter.