skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

Number of WI Women Owning Farms Increasing Rapidly

play audio
Play

Monday, August 6, 2012   

SPRING VALLEY, Wis. - Increasingly, women hold the potential to influence the future of Wisconsin's rural landscape and agriculture. The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service, MOSES, is again this summer presenting a series of day-long on-farm workshops called "In Her Boots: Sustainable Farming For Women, By Women."

Lisa Kivirist, who directs the MOSES Rural Women's Project, says the workshops offer tremendous networking opportunities.

"It's connecting with other people's stories and hearing how they did it, and how they started farming, or what they're farming, or how they're marketing what they're doing, and how they're creating a livelihood around it, by being able to meet people face-to-face doing that, and importantly meeting other women in your local area."

There are two "In Her Boots" workshops in August and one in September.

Increasingly, rural land is being owned by women. Nearly 10,000 Wisconsin family farms are now owned by women, whose numbers in agriculture have steadily been increasing.

"This is another group of women, primarily seniors and senior widowed women who are inheriting their family farms, and for the first time may be in a management position about their land, and are very open and interested in having more conservation land practices."

Kivirist says the workshops provide a crucial link between the women and the resources they need.

In addition to the "In Her Boots" workshops, this year MOSES has partnered with the Women, Food, and Agriculture Network to develop Women Caring for the Land workshops - two in August and two in September. Kivirist says these workshops are free.

"This is a unique resource to help connect women with basic conservation principles, and importantly, with local resources and agency staff, and programs that they might be interested in or qualify for."

Complete information about registering for both sets of workshops is available at the Rural Women's Project tab at MOSESOrganic.org.


get more stories like this via email

more stories
Iowa families can apply for up to $7,600 a year for private school costs. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

An ethics committee in the Republican-led Iowa House has dismissed a complaint filed by a group of community activists against a state lawmaker for hi…


play sound

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of California high school seniors have to figure out if they can afford to go to college in the fall - and two new …

Health and Wellness

play sound

A health care workforce shortage in New Hampshire is leaving Alzheimer's patients and their families with few options for treatment. Patients facing …


South Dakota ranks 49th in the country for its contribution to indigent legal defense costs, according to a 2023 report from the Indigent Legal Services Task Force. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

South Dakota is creating an Office of Indigent Legal Services after House Bill 1057 passed the Legislature with nearly unanimous support this month…

Environment

play sound

A Knoxville-based environmental group is voicing concerns over what it sees as an increasing financial strain imposed on taxpayers by nuclear weapons …

Social Issues

play sound

Today, people across Arizona are voting in the Presidential Preference Election, a chance for registered Democrats and Republicans to choose their …

Environment

play sound

Traffic deaths are trending higher in Minnesota this year after a decline the previous year. Groups pushing for safer roads are convinced a small …

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021