Women Caring for the Land

Women who own or manage farmland in Butler, Bremer, Buchanan, Grundy, Black Hawk, Tama or surrounding counties are invited to participate in a free conservation discussion at the Bremer County Extension office in Tripoli on April 4 or on April 10 at Hawkeye Community College, Tama Hall in Waterloo.

Women currently own or co-own over half the farmland in Iowa.  WFAN’s program Women Caring for the LandSM offers a peer-to-peer, informal discussion format to allow women landowners to talk about your individual farm management goals, facilitated by both women conservationists and legal experts who will share information on leases, conservation programs, fencing and drainage law, and other risk management tools.

A woman landowner from Cherokee who attended a WCL meeting said, "If I'd have known it would be so interesting, I would've brought a lot of friends along." Another woman from Chariton said, “Thank you for explaining things in a way I could understand.

Please RSVP your attendance to (limited to first 30 registrants per location):

April 4 Session

Contact Ron Lenth at 319.882.4275 or email rlenth@iastate.edu

by April 2 at 4:30 pm

April 10 Session

Contact Michelle Temeyer at 319.234.6811 or email Temeyer@iastate.edu

by April 8 at 4:30 pm

This session of Women Caring for the LandSM is sponsored by Women, Food and Agriculture Network in partnership with Iowa’s Soil and Water Conservation Districts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and is funded by a grant from the North Central Risk Management Education Center under USDA NIFA award 2010 – 49200 – 06200.