Seeds of Hope: Mississippi Farmer Grows Crops to Serve His Community

Cole Rogers founded Seeds of Hope MS to grow and donate food to families facing food insecurity.

SEMINARY, Miss. (RFD News) — For most farmers, a corn crop represents months of work and the hope of turning a profit. For Mississippi farmer Cole Rogers, it’s about something different: feeding those in need.

RFD News Correspondent Tammi Arender introduces viewers to Rogers, founder of Seeds of Hope MS, a ministry dedicated to growing food for hungry families rather than for the marketplace.

With this season’s corn harvest now complete, the work is far from over.

Rogers and volunteers are already preparing for the next growing season. This fall, they plan to plant turnip greens and other vegetables, all of which will be harvested and given away to help feed members of their community.

Through Seeds of Hope MS, Rogers continues to use agriculture as a way to serve others, combining farming with a mission to help those facing food insecurity.

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Tammi was raised on a cotton and soybean farm in Tallulah, Louisiana. In 1981, she became a TV news anchor and reporter at KNOE-TV in Monroe, Louisiana. She is also an anchor/reporter for RFD-TV and Rural Radio Channel 147 on Sirius XM at their Nashville news studio, where Tammi currently resides.

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