Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Iowa Learning Farms' April Webinar: Women Caring for the Land

Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Start: 11:30 am End: 12:15 pm

Location: Online webinar

Contact: John Lundvall, ILF field coordinator, 515-294-5429

The Iowa Learning Farms’ (ILF) April webinar will feature Leigh Adcock, executive director of Women, Food and Agriculture Network (WFAN).

Adcock’s presentation "Women Caring for the Land” will outline this WFAN program. WFAN is anon-profit organization that provides networking, information and leadership development opportunities to women in sustainable agriculture. One of WFAN’s strongest programs is “Women Caring for the Land,” an innovative peer-to-peer outreach method that targets non-operator female farmland owners to improve conservation on their land. Women now own or co-own 50 percent of Iowa’s farmland and are eager conservation partners when properly informed and supported. This program has helped up to 65 percent of meeting participants achieve measurable conservation results within one year of attending. Adcock has been executive director of Women, Food and Agriculture Network since 2008.

The webinar is part of a series, hosted by ILF, held on the third Wednesday of each month. The webinars are held over the noon hour through Adobe Connect. All that is needed to participate is a computer with Internet access. The topics discussed will be beneficial for technical service providers, watershed project coordinators, Extension specialists and anyone else interested in the topic of the month.

Related information

View an archived version of this presentation [Adobe Connect website]

View other ILF webinars  www.extension.iastate.edu/ilf

About Iowa Learning Farms: ILF is a partnership between the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa State University Extension, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the US EPA (section 319); in cooperation with Conservation Districts of Iowa and the Iowa Farm Bureau.