Women Caring for the Land engages women landowners to advance stewardship and cultivate a community of conservation champions
By our best estimates women now own or co-own nearly 50% of the farmland in the U.S. A large portion of those women are over the age of 65 and an increasing number are sole proprietors who may have been excluded from farm management decisions in the past.
We know through 15+ years of work with women landowners that they hold strong conservation values and want their land farmed sustainably into the future. Women Caring for the Land provides resources and community to these women to support them to identify and achieve their conservation goals.
American Farmland Trust, Iowa State University, and The Women, Food, and Agriculture Network collaborated on this profile to highlight how Iowa landowner and WFAN Stewardship Ambassador Palma Strand is working with her farm tenant to make a difference in her corner of Iowa agriculture.