When Uriah Mathews first stepped into the role of Executive Director of the Walton County Economic Development Alliance, his office held a single guest chair squeezed between a file cabinet and the door. It was a modest setting for an organization with big ambitions.
Frost Lane Farms recently joined Wonderful Walton on a field trip to Tallahassee to visit the Red Hills Farm Alliance, a 20-year-old cooperative that has revolutionized the way local farmers connect with their communities. What they saw wasn’t just a model for marketing produce—it was a blueprint for how to build stronger, healthier, more resilient communities from the ground up.
