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Have you heard of the Female Farmer Project?
Well, now you have.
The project is a collaboration between writers, photographers, and farmers (of course!). FFP is working on highlighting women in agriculture and is setting about chronicling the rise in female farmers across the world. We feel it's necessary to point out the obvious, which is that women have always been farming and have actually played a pretty central role in agriculture for, basically, ever. But the historical narrative often focuses on men (we like you guys too).
From the Female Farmer Project blog:
blog and podcast focused on women in agriculture
Posted: January 18 2017
the chicken caravan, Quebec, Canada
Have you heard of the Female Farmer Project?
Well, now you have.
The project is a collaboration between writers, photographers, and farmers (of course!). FFP is working on highlighting women in agriculture and is setting about chronicling the rise in female farmers across the world. We feel it's necessary to point out the obvious, which is that women have always been farming and have actually played a pretty central role in agriculture for, basically, ever. But the historical narrative often focuses on men (we like you guys too).
From the Female Farmer Project blog:
"I spent the weekend visiting friends who live in rural Minnesota. Though they aren't farming, they are surrounded by farms and live on a farmstead. I was reading to their 5 year old girl and 3 year old boy and a book mentioned "the farmer's wife" but I instead just called her "the farmer" because, duh. And the little girl immediately piped up and said "I thought only boys were farmers". So I told them that girls can be farmers too and lots of girls are farmers."
Check the project out here.
and go listen to their fun podcast here.