Chris Fesko

Owner, Chris Fesko Enterprises, LLC.
Owner, On the Farm Discovery Center, Inc.
Videos produced to date and awards they have won:

Summer on the Farm 1

Finalist of the 1995 International Telly Award for production excellence in Children’s Videos.
Winner 1995 Vision Award, Children’s programs

Summer on the Farm 2: Animals

Winner of 1996 Vision Award

Winter on the Farm

Winner 1997 Oppenheim Gold Best Video Award
Winner of Silver Parents Choice Award
Finalist 1997 International Telly Award
Winner 1997 Communicator Award

Fixin’ on the Farm

Winner 1998 International Telly Award
Winner 1998 Parents Choice Distinguished Video Award
Winner 1998 Videographer Award: Production Excellence
Winner 1998 Communicator Award: Children’s Programs

Everyday is Earth Day on the Farm

Winner 2000 International Telly Award: Children’s Category
Winner 2000 Videographer Award: Production Excellence
Winner 2000 Communicator Award : Environmental Issues
Nominations for the following awards: Parents Choice Award and Aurora Awards.

Organizations that have engaged Chris Fesko to speak:

Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
Michigan Milk Producers
National Agriculture in the Classroom
Cornell University
New York State Agribusiness Society
Kentucky Farm Bureau
Michigan Farm Bureau
Board of Cooperative Educational Services of New York
New York FFA
United Dairy Industry of Michigan
Ag Awareness of Nova Scotia, Canada
Genex, and many more

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!

Farm credit offices 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 27 years to New York Dairy Farmer, Rick Fesko

Mother of three children: Benjamin 25, Kimberly 23, and Todd 17

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

7 years experience as Director / Producer of educational videos

6 years experience as speaker and presenter at educational conferences

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