Lesley Kelly: Cultivating mental health awareness in agriculture

Approximately 45% of farmers across Canada report that they live with high stress and 58% meet the threshold for anxiety. Plus, harvest brings a whole new added level of stress and pressure to farmers all across the province. We're kicking off season seven of the podcast by chatting with an ag producer that is disrupting the industry by spreading awareness about mental health. Lesley Kelly is a female ag producer from Watrous who is on a mission to connect farmers by supporting the agriculture industry by empowering conversations about the importance of mental health. Lesley joins the What Connects Us Podcast to share her story about navigating postpartum depression and other mental health challenges in her family and how it motivated her to co-found the Do More Ag Foundation and her blog High Heels and Canola Fields. She also talks how the passing of her father impacted her and her family farm operation while sharing some incredibly powerful insight passed down from her dad. Link to Lesley's blog: https://highheelsandcanolafields.com/