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 in our first encounter, discussed what it’s like to be a first generation farmer and mom with Sarah Clulow from Bernard’s Farm (Chessshire, UK) and dreamed about a walk between olive grower Vincenza Ferrara‘s centuries old olive trees in the Sicilian sun.
Mental health is a very important theme for us and it shows in this issue with three articles touching on the subject. A first one is our talk with influencer Jesse Thompson from “Beyond the fencelines”, a project with which she aims to provide an online community for rural women and moms and help break their isolation. Next, we talked to Megz Reynolds, the newly appointed Executive Director of Do More Agriculture about the foundations’ very important work for rural mental health. And of course, our columnist Erica Leniczek provided useful insights and tips to add to your mental health toolbelt in order to deal with loneliness over the holidays specifically, but applicable throughout the year.
An entrepreneur and a rancher, Mary Heffernan from Five Marys Farm shows you how much more there could be to your farm by telling us about Five Marys Meats, M5 Entrepreneurs and Five Marys Burgerhouse.
While we ease into a well-deserved winter break and are ready to hit the ‘pause’ button, we also wanted to look forward to the new year by giving you a preview of the World FIRA Ag Robotics forum. Let’s mark 7, 8 and 9 February in our calendars and meet up in Toulouse for this tradefair where Women in Ag will be present!
The end of a year also means we take the time to look back and reflect. For us, the highlight of this year 2022 was definitely the organisation of the first ever Women in Ag Awards International at EuroTier thanks to the support of the D.L.G.! In this recap, we honour our winners and give you a sneak peek of what’s next for the WiA Awards…
Looking for something to read during the holiday break? Women in Ag editor Antoon has you covered and couldn’t have found a more appropriate title for the time of year: read all about his impressions on Judith D. Schwartz’ “The reindeer chronicles” in our book review.
We close off this last magazine of the year with holiday wishes from women in ag to you, our readers.
We hope you enjoy reading this new issue as much as we enjoyed making it and look forward to bringing you more inspiring stories from the women in our industry in 2023.
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Wishing you a merry Christmas, a happy new year and all the best in 2023.
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