Farmer and influencer recognised in Honours list
Laura Foster/BBCA farmer and influencer who manages initiatives to help people connect with food said it was "unbelievable" to be recognised in the King's Birthday Honours.
Milly Fyfe runs a farm with her husband, Andrew, in Yelvertoft, Northamptonshire.
She has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to farming and family nutrition.
Fyfe, 41, said it had been "very heart warming to feel my work has been recognised".
As well as a blog and podcast, Fyfe founded The Countryside Kitchen, which welcomes school and community groups for field to fork workshops for free.
Within the workshops people are taken into the fields to meet animals, pick ingredients and then cook, all while learning about where the food comes from.
She also promotes buying British produce and highlighting how hard farmers work behind the scenes along with the mental health challenges they can face.
Fyfe added the award belonged "to an extraordinary community of people" who had supported the initiatives, not just her.
Keeping the secret had been hard but she said it was "very heart warming to feel that my work has been recognised".
Laura Foster/BBCFyfe said it had not always been straightforward trying to manage her work alongside chronic pain from a spinal injury sustained during childbirth.
She said her work with The Countryside Kitchen had been her "North star, my guiding light" that had kept her going.
"There have been moments when the future felt impossible but I have always believed that if we can help even one family eat better, one child understand where food comes from or one less farmer feel isolated, then it is worth continuing," she said.
She thanked her husband and sons, Angus and Dougie, for their support.
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