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Community Development and Rural Renewal with Peter Kenyon

Entrepreneur and community enthusiast Peter Kenyon sits down with FCC to discuss strategies for rural revitalization.

Key Points

  • Rural communities are often attractive places to live and work, but economic challenges can make it difficult to keep them that way.
  • Agricultural families typically play a key role in shaping rural communities.
  • Peter feels that the best way to predict the future is to create it – successful rural communities need to play a proactive role in their future.
  • Asset-based community development focuses on using and building on what a community already has.
  • One of the key characteristics of rural revitalization is an inclusive youth leadership growth strategy to make them part of the solution.

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