Chris Fesko

Owner, Chris Fesko Enterprises, LLC.
Owner, On the Farm Discovery Center, Inc.
Videos

Summer on the Farm 1

Summer on the Farm 2: Animals

Winter on the Farm

Fixin’ on the Farm

Everyday is Earth Day on the Farm

Do Pigs Scratch Their Backs? ...And Other Questions On The Farm

Hookin' Up... And How It Works

From Tree to Table: The journey of a log

Babies And Birth On The Farm

Awards

In more than 15 yrs of production, Chris has been acclaimed as an 8-time Telly winner, a 6-time Parents Choice winner, and numerous other awards including the Communicator, Vision, Ava, Davis, Oppenheim Best Video, and Videographer.

Some organizations that have engaged Chris Fesko to speak:

Ag Awareness of Nova Scotia, Canada
Board of Cooperative Educational Services of New York
Cornell University
Genex,
Kentucky Farm Bureau
Michigan Farm Bureau
Michigan Milk Producers
Midwest Women in Agriculture
Mississippi State 4-H
National Agriculture in the Classroom
New York FFA
New York State Agribusiness Society
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
United Dairy Industry of Michigan
Washington State Women of Agriculture
numerous FFA’s.
and many more organizations

Chris has spoken at national conferences, including the National Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) Conference in Washington D.C. and in Nova Scotia, Canada. Additionally, Chris spoke motivationally and in an entertaining capacity for the American Dairy Association in Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana.

Local Ag Education/Promotion conferences as well as State AITC have Chris hold workshops on different activities to use in the classroom as well as at the farm for field trips. Chris was a panelist at the Ag Education Summit meeting at Cornell University.

Awards and recognition given to Chris Fesko personally:

"Person of Distinction Award" given by Commissioner of Agriculture of New York State, Dave Davidson, 1997

"Unsung Heroine’s Award" by the National Organization of Women.

"Farm Communicator of the Year", Northeast Farm Communicators Association, 2001

Given National Recognition on the Today Show.

Published in national publications including:

Working Mother
Parent Magazine
Farm Journal
Successful Farming
Woman’s Day Magazine
Organic Gardening Magazine

Ways in which Chris’ video series is used:

The video series produced by Chris Fesko has been purchased by schools across the country to include Los Angeles, CA, San Antonio, TX, Miami, FL, statewide distribution in NE, and many more!

Banks have used the video series to train loan officers as well as appraisers.

Telemark and Farmbid.com have used On the Farm videos to initiate non-farm employees.

Agriculture in the Classroom uses On the Farm videos nationwide.

Farm Bureaus across the nation use the video series for education and promotion.

Many dairy Co-op’s have placed our video series directly into schools.

Conservation groups use our fifth video to show how farmers and the environment interact.

FFA clubs donate our videos to elementary schools to ignite the interest in agriculture early in the educational process.

At the consumer level, our videos are being used in doctor’s office waiting rooms, in nursing homes for life review, on senior bus trips, and many other places of passive time that can be used to educate the general public about agriculture. The list goes on!

Personal Information and Background:

Wife of 35 years to New York Dairy Farmer, Rick Fesko

Mother of three adult children

Born and raised on a farm in upstate New York

Rotary Exchange student to Denmark 1969-70

Graduated Skaneateles High School 1971

Graduated from New York’s Cortland State Teachers College, Magna Cum Laude, BS 1974, MS ED, 1978

Active hospice volunteer

Lay speaker in the Methodist church

14 years of teaching and coaching experience as well as 4-H leader

15 + years experience as Director / Producer of educational videos

15 + years experience as speaker and presenter at educational conferences

[Education] [Speaking] [Videos] [Discovery] [Testimonials] [Order] [Contact Us]
[Who Is...] [Where's Chris] [Gallery] [Home]