{"id":110,"date":"2025-08-18T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:25:23","slug":"im-a-farmers-daughter-and-some-people-think-that-makes-me-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/im-a-farmers-daughter-and-some-people-think-that-makes-me-less\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019M A FARMER\u2019S DAUGHTER\u2014AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT MAKES ME LESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m a Farmer\u2019s Daughter \u2014 and That\u2019s My Strength<\/strong>. I grew up on a sweet potato farm, where mornings started before sunrise and vacations meant the county fair. My parents worked with dirt under their nails and taught me grit, purpose, and pride in honest labor.<\/p>\n<p>When I got a scholarship to a private high school in the city, people called it my \u201cbig break.\u201d But all I felt was out of place. My jeans smelled faintly of the barn, and whispers like \u201cDo you live on a farm or something?\u201d made me shrink into myself. I hid my background, thinking it made me less.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>That changed during a school fundraiser. I brought sweet potato pies using my family\u2019s recipe \u2014 and they sold out in twenty minutes. That day, our guidance counselor said, \u201cThis is you, Mele. Be proud of it.\u201d Then Izan \u2014 popular, kind, untouchably cool \u2014 asked if I\u2019d make one for his mom. That small moment lit something in me.<\/p>\n<p>By Monday, I wasn\u2019t just baking pies \u2014 I was building \u201cMele\u2019s Roots,\u201d a mini farm-to-table business. Orders rolled in. Teachers, classmates, even the girl who once mocked me wanted a taste. My parents taught me to bake by feel, and I began sharing our farm\u2019s story in essays and school projects.<\/p>\n<p>By senior year, I created a short film about our farm for my identity project. When it played at school, the applause started slow, then built to a standing ovation. Izan later said, \u201cTold you your story mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was right. I used to think being a farmer\u2019s daughter made me invisible. Now I know it makes me rooted \u2014 and that\u2019s something no one can take away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a Farmer\u2019s Daughter \u2014 and That\u2019s My Strength. I grew up on a sweet potato farm, where mornings started before sunrise and vacations meant the county fair. My parents worked with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/532925906_122219980016106495_2261660420623071345_n-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lajme-javore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}