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In this conversation with Karen Washington, we unpack the narrative of Africa’s descendants and their agricultural past. We also tackle the biggest misconceptions that the public has about food access in communities of color. We talk about the racial inequities in the food system, and how food apartheid is an economic and power issue. We also learn about the new Black Farmer Fund and the work they are doing to create social capital and communal wealth in Black communities. A Cultivating Culture Episode with Melony Edwards SHOW NOTES: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2021/2/2/black-farmers-with-karen-washington LETS CONNECT: www.twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

The Vegan turned Farmer, Butcher, Author, and Educator Meredith Leigh joins us to discuss her new book, Ethical Meat. As a deep systems thinker, Meredith shares her thoughts on morality, power, privilege, and race in the context of our food system. We also dig into the COVID accelerated change we saw in 2020 and making space for women’s voices. SHOW NOTES: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2021/1/19/ethical-meat-with-meredith-leigh LETS CONNECT: www.twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

This is part two of our live recorded episodes from the AAAS where examine the impact of emerging technologies on the way we produce food and how we can leverage that technology to build a better and more resilient food system. Michelle Canfield is a farmer and an electrical engineer in the medical device industry by day and in her free time does education and outreach around quantitative genetics for seedstock selection. SHOW NOTES: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/10/21/estimated-breeding-values-with-michelle-canfield LETS CONNECT: twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

How do new and first-generation ranchers find the hands-on knowledge and mentors needed to become successful? We’re increasingly seeing first-generation farmers and ranchers turning to agriculture as their chosen career. But what do you do when you haven’t been raised on the ranch? The New Cowgirl Camp fills the gap! Beth Robinette is a fourth-generation cattle rancher in Washington State. She is a co-founder and hosts the New Cowgirl Camp, an intensive beginning ranching course for women. She shares how she finds ties to family legacy in her daily work, and how she is trying to build resilient systems. SHOW NOTES: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/8/28/the-new-cowgirl-with-beth-robinette New Cowgirl Camp: https://www.newcowgirlcamp.com/ LETS CONNECT: twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

Zerina Kapetanovic is at the intersection of technological innovation and food production. She’s working with Microsoft’s FarmBeats team to enable data-driven farming. Microsoft believes that data, coupled with the farmer’s knowledge and intuition about their own farm, can help increase farm productivity, and also help reduce costs. The team are building several unique solutions using low-cost sensors, drones, and vision and machine learning algorithms. LETS CONNECT: twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

Statistics don’t lie. The future of agriculture is increasingly female. In conversation with Dr Gabrielle McNally of American Farmland Trust’s new initiative - Women for the Land. We discuss the nearly one million women farm operators and over half-a-million additional women landowners who lease their land to farmers and the policies and programs that have supported women farmers and which ones have left them behind. SHOW NOTES: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/3/5/women-for-the-land-with-dr-gabrielle-mcnally-of-american-farmland-trust LETS CONNECT!! twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

Ruramiso Mashumba farms in eastern Zimbabwe. She grows indigenous organic grains including maize, whole brown rice, sorghum, millet and gumtrees. She also grows peas for export and breeds cattle. Ruramiso holds an Agriculture Business Management degree from the University of West England and University of Iowa. She has 10 years’ experience in agriculture and has served in leadership roles as well as winning many awards and fellowships. She is passionate about empowering women in Africa to combat poverty and malnutrition by empowering and equipping them with skills and knowledge in agriculture. SHOW NOTES: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/2/22/empowering-female-farmers-in-africa-with-ruramiso-mashumba LETS CONNECT!! twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

Madeline and Abbe Turner, a mother-daughter farming team from Lucky Penny Farm join us to discuss their new book that celebrates a community of women in dairy who as entrepreneurs are growing local businesses and cultivating the next generation of thriving family farms, meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable enterprises. Shownotes: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/2/3/the-land-of-milk-and-money-women-in-dairy LETS CONNECT!! twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

A discussion with Dr. Ryanne Pilgeram about her decade long research about women in agriculture and the social, financial and other barriers they contend with including the acquisition of land. Historically women have been excluded from owning land and locked out of the successorship of generational farmland. Land ownership is the great tell of inequality in communities. Women not only have to be creative in navigating the acquisition of land and financing, but they are having to move further out from city centers where their customer base is. Show Notes: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/12/1/inherit-it-or-marry-it-women-accessing-farmland-with-dr-ryanne-pilgeram LETS CONNECT!! twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

Queen Sugar author Natalie Baszile joins us on our Cultivating Culture series to discuss the writing of stories about the African American experience including land ownership, intergenerational wealth, inheritance, land loss, mass incarceration, police brutality and other systems of oppression. Find us on https://twitter.com/femalefarmers https://www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ https://www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org Show Notes: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/9/4/afro-american-storytelling-with-queen-sugar-author-natalie-baszile

An article recently declared that farmers are making more money online with YouTube videos than on their farm. WTFarmGirl, Suzanne Cook is one of those YouTubers – she's a first-generation farmer who shares her journey with her 41k subscribers. Get in touch: Twitter @ femalefarmers Instagram @ rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/8/22/farming-on-youtube-with-wtfarm-girl-suzanne-cook

Kari Warberg-Block is a female farmer and mother that was once on food stamps. She now is among the most successful business women in the United States. She started her company with nothing more than a package of garden seeds and a vision. Her $20 million dollar company, EarthKind began from her kitchen table, she sold her first products at her local farmers market and now she’s on shelves in every town. Come learn about her journey, her thoughts on leadership and how she leads her company with purpose. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/6/28/kari-warberg-block-earthkind

Lylah built her farm and farm businesses in a really unique and special way – not around efficiency, or production but around tables. Grab a cup of coffee and join us at Lylah’s table. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast…h-micha-ide

In the 2017 Ag Census data it showed that 66% of the responding female farmer-operators had an off-farm job. Micha Ide joins us to talk about her off-farm jobs and side-hustles all while farming full-time. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/5/29/off-farm-jobs-and-side-hustles-with-micha-ide

In the first of our Cultivating Culture series, host Melony Edwards welcomes Chantel Johnson from Off Grid in Color. Chantel’s shares her experience being personally affected by gun violence and her journey to homesteading in the rural South. She talks about access to pastured meat production for disadvantaged communities and how land access is her biggest obstacle. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/5/16/from-gun-violence-to-homesteading-with-chantel-johnson

Female farmers of color are the marginalized group within a marginalized group within agriculture. They live at the intersection of racism, sexism and classism. Melony Edwards, farmer and chef is joining the Female Farmer Project Podcast in her own series - Cultivating Culture where we are initiating the conversation with BIPOC farmers and those within the food system about racism, bias, and discrimination. justice issues. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/5/2/cultivating-culture-melony-edwards

Acadia Tucker’s longtime love affair with perennial foods has produced an easy-to-understand guide to growing and harvesting them. A regenerative farmer deeply concerned about global warming. Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant these hardy crops. Tucker lays the groundwork for tending an organic, regenerative garden. For her, this is gardening as if our future depends on it, and she spells out why. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley Facebook /FemaleFarmerProject www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/4/4/-growing-good-food-with-acadia-tucker

Tools to help small food producers and processors grow and scale their business. We discussed solving the hard problems that foodpreneurs face, whether it is government regulations, customer expectations, or employee problems. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley www.femalefarmerproject.org Show notes that include the workbook download: http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2019/3/18/foodsafety

Kelsey Jorissen is a female farmer, writer, photographer, and educator that farms on five acres in Southeastern Wisconsin. She shares her thoughts on farming business mentors and using social media to effect change. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley www.femalefarmerproject.org

Angie Provost, puts a lens to the racism and discrimination that still exists in the agriculture industry. While painting is a balm that helps Angie cope with the stress of losing their land and livelihood after decades of discriminatory practices, it’s also a canvas that enables her to speak the truth and to fight back. Get in touch: Twitter @femalefarmers Instagram @rootedinthevalley www.femalefarmerproject.org