Month: December 2022

Women in Ag Mag 2022-004

Women in Ag Mag 2022-004 is out now! This extra festive editon features not two but three encounters, focuses on mental health and how to deal with loneliness over the holidays and comes with a holiday-themed extra! We talked to Angela Ferraro-Fanning from Axe & Root Homestead (New Jersey, US) about regenerative farming and homesteading […]

Women Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition: Forgotten Foods Cooking Contest

The Asia Pacific Farmers Forum, an organisation aiming to support Farmer Organisations in Asia and the Pacific, is launching a forgotten foods cooking contest for the women in agriculture. The challenge is to prepare native dishes using forgotten, indigenous, native or heirloom food crops. The competition is aimed specifically towards women in agriculture in order […]

“We, as farmers, are part of an ecosystem”

Sheila Darmos, The Southern Lights (Skala, Greece) 35 years ago, Stavros Darmos decided to convert his farm in the south of the Peleponnese peninsula to organic practices. He was the first in Greece to make this transition. Today, the next generation took over the farm and decided to take it one step further. Women in […]

“My goal is to create a new conversation around Ag and build a community that trusts in agriculture as much as I do”

Natalie Kovarik, Nebraska rancher & influencer Born and raised on the family farm in Montana, Natalie Kovarik did not think she would follow in her family’s footsteps and become a rancher. Today, she runs Kovarik Cattle Co. in Central Nebraska with her husband and shares about her ranch life online with over 100.000 followers on […]

“I can’t see a reason to make a difference between women and men in agriculture anymore“

Caroline Hirschberg, TestDriver & responsible for field tests of ProCeed seeder at Väderstad She’s only 24 years old, but already has lots of experience working in agriculture. Caroline Hirschberg is a TestDriver and demo driver at Väderstadt, but also helped with the building of their ProCeed planter. On top of all that, Caroline will take […]

“I want to connect with consumers”

Lucie Mainard, “Les Jolies Rousses” farm, Vendée (France) She lived in a rural area, but doesn’t come from an agricultural family. Still, her curiosity towards agriculture led her first to a career as an instructor in local agriculture organisations, and now to a life of farming. Today, Lucie runs her organic poultry farm “Les Jolies […]

Book review: The Soil Will Save Us – Kristin Ohlson

Women in Ag Magazine editor Antoon Vanderstraeten reviews a book about agriculture written by a female author for every issue. Although “The soil will save us” by Kristin Ohlson is now almost 10 years old, the book is certainly not dated. The author, a farmers’ granddaughter, thoroughly studied carbon for several years, more specifically the […]