Meet Katherine
Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold
Farmer. Founder. Systems professional.
Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold is running to be Georgia's next Commissioner of Agriculture because farmers deserve a department they can work with, and families deserve a food system they can count on.
Why Katherine is running
Before the campaign
Her work started long before this campaign.
Through Baby Katie's Pharm & Kitchen, Katherine has worked in community agriculture, seed and seedling access, local food production, farm-to-school initiatives, growing education, and farmers markets.
She has helped families learn how to grow food, preserve agricultural knowledge, and build practical food independence. Her work is rooted in a simple belief: healthy food, agricultural knowledge, and the opportunity to grow should not depend on income, ZIP code, or access to traditional farmland.
That work is the foundation of her campaign. She wants a Georgia where the people growing our food have the support to keep going, and the people who need that food have a better way to reach it.
The experience she brings
A grower's perspective. A systems professional's approach.
Katherine's experience also includes infrastructure, education, systems coordination, and community-building. She approaches complicated problems by asking practical questions: Where are people getting stuck? Who is responsible? What needs to happen next?
That is the approach she would bring to the Department of Agriculture: clear information, coordinated services, fair treatment, and follow-through. A farmer should not have to start over with every office, and a family should not have to know the right person to get an answer.
The farmer trying to make enough to plant again next season and the family trying to afford dinner tonight are part of the same system.
Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold
Why she is running
Farmers and families belong in the same conversation.
Katherine is not a career politician. This is her first campaign for elected office, and she is running because the work she cares about keeps leading back to the same question: How do we make Georgia's agricultural system work better for the people who depend on it?
She wants farmers to have a fair chance to build a lasting business and families to have a better connection to the food grown around them. She wants people to understand what this office does and know where to turn when they need help.
Agriculture is about farmers. It is also about workers, families, small businesses, animals, land, and water. Katherine believes those responsibilities belong in the same conversation, with the people affected by them at the table.
What she would bring to the office
Service people can navigate
Clear guidance, coordinated records, and accountable referrals so people can get help without being sent in circles.
Stronger Georgia food connections
Practical support for local markets, regional processing, and partnerships that connect Georgia-grown food with Georgia tables.
Leadership that follows through
Fair inspections, consistent standards, and a department that respects the time and work of the people it serves.
Where I Stand
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Georgia agriculture built this state.
Our farmers face new pressures and global competition.
With modern leadership, strategic investment, and strong markets at every level, Georgia can lead the nation in agricultural innovation, export growth, and rural prosperity.
Georgia agriculture powers our economy, our communities, and our global reach. As Commissioner, Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold will serve with care and competence — strengthening markets, supporting producers, protecting consumers, and preparing Georgia's agricultural economy for the future.