{"id":17558,"date":"2024-04-25T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/?p=17558"},"modified":"2024-04-26T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:57:57","slug":"new-members-spotlight-katie-steven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/new-members-spotlight-katie-steven\/","title":{"rendered":"New Members Spotlight! Katie Steven, East Fife JAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17562 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sayfc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-03-28-at-09.38.03-252x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Katie&#8217;s YF Journey<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Katie Steven, 26, East Fife JAC<\/p>\n<p>I started going along to Young Farmers in 2021, age 23. My first meeting with East Fife JAC was a Car Treasure Hunt, which we won! This was a big confidence boost and it was instantly obvious it is a very welcoming community of all ages and backgrounds. The variety of activities held and generosity of hosts across the syllabuses is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t come from a farming background however our family haulage business works closely with the agricultural industry and it has been great to socialise with people my own age, outwith the working environment.<\/p>\n<p>This year I have sat on the committee and have enjoyed being part of the team putting meetings together and learning more about behind the scenes of Young Farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re putting our New Members in the Spotlight, asking them about their YF experience and their hopes for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":17562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"venue":[],"class_list":["post-17558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Members Spotlight! 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