2019 October Newsletter

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HAPPINESS FARMS, INC. is pleased to announce that our office manager
Danielle Daum has earned coveted honors presented by the Highlands News-
Sun for Women in Business 2019, in conjunction with International Women in
Business week, September 22-28 th , 2019.
So much more than just an office manager, Daum, whose special education degree is now used
to educate and advocate for all Florida agriculture, not just the caladiums and citrus her family
has grown in the Lake Placid area for 4 generations. She is also co-founder of Highlands
County Ag-Venture, Inc. and actively seeks educational experiences for Florida Ag in the
Classroom as an active part of their advisory board. She has served as the secretary for
Highlands County Cattlewomen and is board member and vice-chair of Florida’s Farm Bureau.
On her trips to the nation’s capital she advocates for family farmers all over Florida for hurricane
recovery and other support.
Combining desk work with farm work is not easy but Daum juggles wholesalers, employees,
government officials, volunteers, vendors, classroom children and her own family with aplomb.
Those who work with Daum in all of her roles agree that it would be hard to find a women who
works at all levels of Florida Ag and manages to balance a focus on the sustainability of Florida
family farming, as well as her own family caladium business with professionalism, humor and
complete dedication to all her many responsibilities.
HAPPINESS FARMS, INC. asks that you join us in congratulating Danielle Daum.
For more information: (Press only) Laura Mitchell | caladiums@happinessfarms.com
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Danielle Daum’s classrooms are the caladium fields as
she teaches her staff about the business. Her passion
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letting family-owned agriculture businesses age out. She is
fair, direct, dedicated and fun. She treats me like a part of
her family. I am dedicated to the family, because they are
to me. Danielle is a dynamo and inspiring.”
Daum has a degree in elementary and special
education. However, her classrooms are the caladium
fields as she teaches her staff about the business.
Daum’s passion for agriculture goes much further
than the office. She is a co-founder Highlands County
Ag-Venture, Inc. and has been the co-chairman for
20 years. Daum finds curriculum and speakers for
Ag in the Classroom and Ag-Literacy Day. She has
COURTESY PHOTO served on the Florida Ag in the Classroom Volunteer
Advisory Board and is secretary of the Highlands
County Cattlewomen for over 20 years. Daum is the
vice chairman of Florida’s Farm Bureau and a member
of the organization’s board of directors. She has also
served on the Children’s Services Council.
Daum recently came back from Washington, D.C.,