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rhubarb and resilience: women share inspiration

Posted: May 31 2020

Lisa Kivirist, Senior Fellow and Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota, authored a beautiful piece published in the Monroe Times:

Rhubarb and Resilience - Women Share Inspiration

And a note from Lisa:

Here in my southern Wisconsin farm-hood, with my local women farmer summer potluck scene on COVID hiatus (and unfortunately our annual Soil Sisters weekend postponed to 2021), we took another route to connect that might generate some ideas for you:  print!  
We just started a monthly women farmer-led column for our small town local paper here in southern Wisconsin.  Here’s the kick-off piece with some context:
Monroe Times Rhubarb and resilience - Women share inspiration
An idea to amplify women farmer and all voices in our rural newspapers (who generally are happy to have contributions — like ours).