If you are, or want to be, a woman farmer or “eco-preneur,” this page is for you.

US Regional Sustainable Agricultural Networks for Women

Northwest

Oregon State University Women Farmer Networks

Midwest

Minnesota Women in Sustainable Agriculture. Email Bonnie Haugen.

Wisconsin Women in Sustainable Agriculture. Email JoAnn Pipkorn.

MOSES Rural Women’s Project (WI)

Women, Food and Agriculture Network (based in Iowa)

East

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (North Carolina)

Connecticut Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Maine Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

North Carolina Women of the Land Agricultural Network (WOLAN)

Pennsylvania Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

South Carolina Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Vermont Women’s Ag Network (WAgN)

Trainings and Courses

Grow Your Small Market Farm (Iowa)

Farm Beginnings (Land Stewardship Project, Midwest)

PFI’s “Farminar” webinar series (web archive of experienced and beginning farmer interviews focusing on practical skills)

Northeast Beginning Farmers Project (online courses, Cornell Univ.)

Publications

Financing Your Farm: Guidance for Beginning Farmers (2012, PDF from ATTRA)

Greenhorns Guide for Beginning Farmers (2010, PDF)

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

First 4 Years Loon Organics (PDF)

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

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 and Food Production (YouTubeTM video)

Websites

ATTRA/NCAT

Beginning Farmers (resource site from Michigan State University)

Center for Rural Affairs

Cornell University Small Farms Program

Cultivating Success

Farmer Jane

Greenhorns

Growing for Market (magazine and web resource)

Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)

MOSES Rural Women’s Project

National Young Farmers Coalition

Practical Farmers of Iowa (web-based farmer resources)

Start2Farm (web clearinghouse maintained by the US National Agricultural Library)

University of California Small Farm Program

USDA Alternative Farming Systems Information Center

USDA Family & Small Farms

USDA Women in Agriculture