Michele Payn speaks from the intersection of farm and food to bring clarity and common sense to the grocery store. A farm girl since birth and a foodie since living in Italy, she is one of North America’s leading farm and food advocates. Payn is passionate about getting back to the truth in food raised the right way, by the right people, for the right reasons. She is an in-demand media resource whose work has appeared in USA Today, Food Insight, Food & Nutrition Magazine, Grist, and others as well as on NPR and CNN.

As a Certified Speaking Professional, she has addressed hundreds of groups, such as Dietetic Associations, Universities, Genome Prairie, Michigan Vegetable Growers, Farm Credit Council, Apple Processors Association and Farm Bureaus, helping thousands of people around the world translate farm to food.

She holds B.S. degrees in animal science and agricultural communications from Michigan State University, where her impact has been featured in a Spartan Saga. She’s owned cattle and baked bread since she was nine years-old—and believes her life’s calling is to connect those two worlds. She and her daughter reside on a small farm in Indiana.

Payn is the author of Amazon best seller Food Truths from Farm to Table: 25 Ways to Shop & Eat Without Guilt and No More Food Fights! Growing a Productive Farm & Food Conversation. She invites you to connect with @mpaynspeaker across social media to remove confusion and guilt from your food.