Meet the 6-year-old who is a certified professional farmer
Kendall Rae Johnson, a 6-year-old born and raised in Atlanta, spends most of her time planting fruits and vegetables in her family’s backyard urban farm. She also happens to be the youngest certified farmer in the state of Georgia.
She started planting seeds at age 3. Now, this 6-year-old is the youngest certified farmer in Georgia.
Asha C. Gilbert
USA Today
Oct 6, 2021
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Her knack for planting the seeds of fruits and vegetables began when she was 3 years old, according to her website. Her curiosity for watching things grow stemmed from her great-grandmother Laura “Kate” Williams.
“She started to see it go from a seed, to a plant, and then die and come back. She saw the plant life cycle of that and was like, wow,” Kendall Rae’s mom, Ursula Johnson, told 11 Alive.
Kendall Rae’s budding vegetable garden led to the start of her farming business called aGROWKulture, and eventually she became a certified farmer in the stateNow, she has become a local symbol for young farmers.
Last week, the city of South Fulton, where she lives, declared Sept. 28 “Kendall Rae Appreciation Day” for her work in her garden.
Kendall Rae’s parents built a garden in their backyard when she was 4 years old, allowing her to develop her green thumb to plant zucchinis, carrots, okra and strawberries.
“She started out in a patio garden and the patio garden grew from a little bitty something to, by the time her fourth birthday came, we had a full-fledged garden in our backyard,” Ursula told “Good Morning America.”
“And then we moved, and now she has a farm.”
