Articles/Studies/Presentations

Key Resources for Beginning Women Farmers and Ecopreneurs (2010, MOSES Rural Women’s Project handout) PDF

Women Caring for the Land pilot project summary (2009) PDF

Why Don’t We Have Sustainable Agriculture Now? (2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, Iowa State University, Richard Levins PhD) PDF

13 Stories: Iowa Women Farmers’ Motivations, Beliefs, and Practices Within the Local Foods Movement (2008) PDF

Small food, farm businesses Provide healthy future for Iowa (Letter to editor, Des Moines Register, 2-25-08) PDF

Women and the Land (Iowa State University Summary of Cass County Landowners Survey, 11-03) PDF

Women and Food Production (YouTubeTM video)

Women Farmers: The Key to Food Security (D. O’Brien presentation to Iowa State Univ. Graduate Program in Sust. Ag., 9-07) PowerPoint TM

Women’s Voices in the Farm Bill: Broadening Perspectives in Agricultural Policy (results of 2006 listening sessions)

Websites

Farmer Jane

Small Farm Center (UC-Davis)

Rural Women’s Network

US Women in Agriculture (USDA)

Connecticut Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Maine Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Pennsylvania Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Vermont Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Association of Women in Agriculture (U of WI-Madison)

Women’s Agricultural Community (Mich. State Univ.)

Women, Land and Legacy (Iowa State Outreach Council)

Farmers Markets Today

NGOabroad (international careers and volunteering)

Green Heron Tools, LLC (farm and garden tools for women)

Wisconsin Agriculture and Energy Resource Center, Inc.

Blogs

The Dirt on the Farm (Iowa woman landowner)

GreenOptions

Blog for Rural America

The Rural Populist

The Rural Blog

The Ethicurean

Bleeding Heartland

Daily Yonder

Farm Policy

US Food Policy

Mulch

In the Field

Civil Eats

Environmental & Food Justice

Growing Home

Videos

This is a 10-minute video by Ames, IA, WFAN member Helen Gunderson, exploring the changes in rural life over the past 50 years on the road she grew up on in Pocahontas County in northwest Iowa.