On July 19th 2025, Clemson’s HRSA Go Mobile health fair travelled to the F.A.R.M. center, a celebration of agriculture in Oconee County. A wide variety of visitors come to the F.A.R.M. center for a morning farmer’s market and various events like livestock and tractor shows and rodeos on weekend nights. Field Supervisor Dr. Lucia Gonzales made the rounds to the vendor tables, explained the purpose of Go Mobile and encouraged people to have a health screening performed. Clinical Supervisors Kelsey Elmore and Catherine Smith, along with the HRSA trainee, recruited from the passerby. Where at other sites the team would count waves and honks from passing cars, at the F.A.R.M. center there is a closer level of interaction. An estimated 60 people returned our greetings to them as they walked by our table in the middle of the farmer’s market during the clinic day. Sixteen people sat down for a screening, and all but 2 hailed from DRU zip codes. Prisma RN Preceptor Megyn Dawson provided immunization information. The team measured 11 blood pressures, took 10 blood glucose readings, and shared low glycemic diet handouts with 4 people.
One clinical supervisor purchased 2 pounds of locally grown jalapeños to make pepper jelly. The vendor next to the HRSA table saw the same supervisor admiring the tomatoes and made a gift of two large tomatoes of the “mortgage lifter” variety. He told us the person who developed this type was so successful selling the seeds, plants and fruits that he was able to pay off his farm’s mortgage!