Session 1 | Jan 31, 2019 | Audra Mulkern: Telling Your Story

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUykoolvWi8

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TLDRAudra, nainen joka on omistautunut naisten roolin esille tuomiseen maataloudessa, jakoi näkemyksiään ja tarinoita Female Farmer Project -projektin kautta, joka keskittyy naisten määrän kasvun dokumentointiin maataloudessa kautta maailman. Project on alusta tarinoille ja innovatiiviselle keskustelulle naisten mukana olosta ja vaikutuksesta maatalouteen. Audra tähdentää tarinankerronnan voimaa ymmärryksen ja empatian luomisessa. Hän on huomannut, että naiset tuottavat puolet maailman ruoasta, mutta omistavat vain murto-osan maatiloista. Tämä tarina korostaa näkymättömien näkyväksi tekemistä ja naisten merkittävää roolia, joka usein jää huomiotta virallisissa tilastoissa tai mediassa. Audra pyrkii muuttamaan tätä ja työskentelee parantaakseen naisten näkyvyyttä sekä nykyajan että historian kertomuksissa, kehittäen elokuvan "Women's Work: The Untold Story of America's Female Farmers".

Takeaways

  • 📸 Audra keskittyy naisten roolin esille tuomiseen maataloudessa.
  • 📊 Naisten tilastoiminen maataloudessa alkoi vasta 1978.
  • 👩‍🌾 Naiset tuottavat puolet maailman ruoasta, mutta omistavat vain vähän maatiloista.
  • 👥 Female Farmer Project dokumentoi naisia maataloudessa monikanavaisesti.
  • 🌍 Projekti kerää tarinoita naismyjistä ympäri maailmaa.
  • 🎞 Audra työstää dokumenttielokuvaa naisten työstä maataloudessa.
  • 👩‍🎨 Tarinat auttavat lisäämään empatiaa ja tekevät naiset näkyviksi.
  • 📚 Naisten tarinat puuttuvat usein virallisesta historiasta.
  • 🌱 Naisten tarinoissa korostuvat yhteisöllisyys ja kestävyys.
  • 📈 Naisten näkyvyys tilastoissa ja mediassa on haaste, jota Audra haluaa korjata.

Garis waktu

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Audra keskustelee nauraen siitä, miten hän on pitänyt samoja vaatteita kylmässä säässä. Hän esittelee Audran, naisviljelijöihin keskittyvän projektin perustajan, joka käsittelee naisten kasvavaa roolia maataloudessa. Audra mainitsee podcastistaan ja mahdollisuudesta tehdä jatko-osa, jossa käsitellään uusia maataloustilastoja.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Audra korostaa naisten äänen vahvistamisen tärkeyttä maataloudessa ja kertoo, miten hän havaitsi naisten suuren määrän paikallisilla markkinoilla. Hän puhuu, kuinka naiset tuottavat suuren osan maailman ruoasta, mutta saavat vain vähän maatalouden resursseista ja maanomistuksista. Hän aloitti projektin naisten näkyväksi tekemiseksi valokuvauksen kautta huolimatta kokemattomuudestaan.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Yhdysvaltain maataloustilastot eivät ole kattavia naisten roolin suhteen. Audra huomauttaa, että naisten puuttuminen kiinteistö-, pankki- ja liiketoimintadokumenteista vaikuttaa heidän mahdollisuuksiinsa saada taloudellista apua. Hän on innoissaan uusimmista tilastouudistuksista ja jakaa esimerkkejä yksinäisyyden ja haasteiden kohtaamisesta maataloudessa.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Audra kertoo tarinoita naisviljelijöistä, jotka ovat kohdanneet vaikeuksia, kuten kaivon kuivumisen tai sadon menetyksen sääolosuhteiden vuoksi. Hän kuvaa tapauksia, joissa naiset ylläpitävät perintömaatilojaan tai ryhtyvät kaupunkiviljelyyn. Naisille on ominaista innovatiivisuus, yhteisöllisyys ja intohimo maataloutta kohtaan, ja he kohtaavat usein suuren paineen.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Audra jatkaa tarinoita naisviljelijöistä, jotka ovat maailmaa siirtyneet maatalouteen toisen ammatin kautta, usein suurkaupungeista tai muilta aloilta. Hän jakaa esimerkkejä yrittäjyydestä, työtunneista ja tasapainoilusta henkilökohtaisen elämän kanssa. Audra korostaa tarinankerronnan voimaa vaikutusten aikaansaamisessa ja siitä, miten naiset ovat kielteisten stereotypioiden vallankumouksessa.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Eri naisten tarinoissa nousevat esiin maata säästävät tavat, luonto- ja eläinsuojelu sekä yhteisöjen puolesta työskenteleminen. Audra kertoo naisista, jotka ovat muuttaneet omat uransa maataloudessa kenties jopa pelastaen eläinlajeja sukupuutolta, ja kuinka yhteisöt sekä henkilökohtaiset menetykset vaikuttavat maatalousyhteisöön laajemmin.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Audra korostaa tarinankerronnan merkitystä ja naisten erilaisia tapoja osallistua maatalouden edistämiseen, kuten kaupunkiviljelyn ja maailman suurimpien kattotilojen hoitamisen esimerkkien kautta. Hän käsittelee myös rakennetun ympäristön tarjoamia haasteita ja mahdollisuuksia maatalouden innovaatioissa.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:44:26

    Audra päättää esityksensä kutsumalla ihmisiä tukemaan naisviljelijöiden tarinoiden kertomista ja maatalousprojektien kehittämistä. Hän mainitsee projektinsa tavoitteista ja rohkaisee yleisöä toimimaan ja syventymään maatalouskysymyksiin naisten näkökulmasta. Käydään keskustelu yleisön kysymyksistä ja tulevista projekteista.

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Peta Pikiran

Video Tanya Jawab

  • Kuka on Audra?

    Audra on kokki, kirjailija ja valokuvaaja, joka keskittyy naisten rooliin maataloudessa.

  • Mikä on Female Farmer Project?

    Se on monikanavainen dokumenttihanke, joka seuraa naisten määrän kasvua maatalousalalla maailmanlaajuisesti.

  • Mitkä ovat olleet naisten haasteita maatalousalalla?

    Naisten haasteisiin kuuluvat mm. rajoitetut taloudelliset resurssit ja heikko näkyvyys hallituksen tilastoissa.

  • Milloin USDA alkoi seurata sukupuolitilastoja?

    Vuonna 1978.

  • Miten Audra aloitti valokuvaamisen?

    Hän lainasi kameran ja sai 15 minuutin opetuksen aloittaakseen valokuvaamisen.

  • Mitä tavoitteita Audralla on?

    Hän pyrkii tuomaan esiin naisten tarinat maataloudessa ja parantamaan heidän näkyvyyttään historiassa.

  • Millaisia tarinoita esiteltiin esityksessä?

    Audra jakoi tarinoita naisista, jotka ovat eri puolilta maailmaa maataloudessa.

  • Miten Audra rahoitti projektinsa alkuvaiheessa?

    Hän rahoitti sen itse kutsumalla sitä intohimoprojektiksi.

  • Miten projektia voi seurata ja tukea?

    Sosiaalisessa mediassa ja projektin verkkosivuilta, esimerkiksi tilaamalla uutiskirjeen.

  • Mikä on Audran viesti tarinankerronnasta?

    Tarinoiden kertominen auttaa lisäämään empatiaa ja mahdollistaa muutoksen.

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Gulir Otomatis:
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    I was just talking with Audra this
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    morning and I just cracked myself up
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    because I kind of glimpse of myself in
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    the camera and I thought oh my gosh I've
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    been wearing the same it's below zero
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    there's snow coming out of the sky and
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    the wind is blowing I'm in layers well I
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    don't know if you can hear me but I've
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    only had one cup of coffee so I said
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    everybody's expectations correctly
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    Hawaii folks so you might not by way of
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    introduction quickly that Audra is a
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    cook writer and photographer who's
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    putting good food in the spotlight and
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    changing the way you look at farming and
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    the food on your plate she is the
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    founder of the female farmer project a
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    multi-platform documentary project that
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    chronicles the rise of women working in
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    agriculture around the world from
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    in-depth stories personal essays
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    photographic portraits a podcast and in
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    development documentary film the project
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    gives a powerful voice to the fastest
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    growing demographic in agriculture the
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    female farmer so who better to bring how
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    to have here to help close us out this
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    morning than somebody who's seen it up
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    close and personal through the eyes of
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    an artist and a fantastic photographer
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    so Artur thank you so much for being
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    here thank you for inviting me I mean
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    I'm no Barbara Raider but I have
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    interviewed her and I have a podcast
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    featuring her so if anybody wants to dig
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    in my my website and scroll back a
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    little bit you'll find a podcast that
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    they're talking about how they
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    approached this census and so hopefully
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    we'll be able to do a part two with the
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    new numbers hopefully yes and now if you
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    do you want to bring your presentation
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    hop and show your serene ice cream and
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    are you guys seeing
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    here no Japanese up here they're perfect
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    alright I start with a white screen just
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    so that so everybody should be seeing a
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    white screen okay
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    well it's interesting and I heard you
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    talking
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    while I do that with images and essays
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    like you said it doesn't always have to
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    be that way it can also you can also
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    tell an amplify a woman's story by
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    introducing her by echoing what she says
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    in a meeting to make sure that her
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    thoughts are heard amplifying each other
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    as sisters it's got to be our priority
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    for us so I'll tell you some stories
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    about women and why I do that I do very
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    much believe in the power of amplifying
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    the voices of female farmers and telling
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    their stories because I believe that a
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    story creates a stepping stone for
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    understanding and demand space and an
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    overarching narrative a story requires
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    us for the empathy to make change five
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    years ago I was standing in the middle
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    of the farmer's market when I noticed
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    something behind every single table was
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    a woman it was like they were suddenly
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    visible to me I mean why hadn't this
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    occurred to me before these women who
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    grow vegetables and raise animals and
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    make cheese they were the stewards of my
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    local economy and they were quietly
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    addressing the issues of hunger and
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    accessibility of fresh produce for the
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    most vulnerable people in my community
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    they were also the landowners in my
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    community and yet I never really thought
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    about them it made me wonder what was
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    going on and wondered if my community
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    was unique so I went to the library to
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    dig deeper and yes I am that kind of
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    nerd who notices a bunch of women at the
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    farmers market and follows it up with a
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    visit to the library I checked up
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    I studied the governmental statistics
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    which were pretty grim and what I
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    discovered was this that women produced
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    more than half of the food grown
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    worldwide but only receive about 5% of
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    agricultural services and owned about 2%
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    of farmland of the 2.1 million farms in
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    the United States only 14% of women only
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    14% have a woman as a primary operator
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    across the business sector about 29% of
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    America's business owners are women so
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    even when we are looking at farms as a
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    business it's pretty far behind the
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    curve or the numbers are wrong we're not
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    sure because we think that the 2012
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    census of Agriculture was asking the
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    wrong questions but from my observations
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    of my own farming community it was
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    different where I live here in western
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    Washington it's mostly women-owned
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    operations so I thought ok maybe there's
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    something special going on or maybe
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    there's been a shift or maybe I've even
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    been conditioned to think of men as
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    farmers but I noticed something else
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    when I was at the library that women
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    were missing from the visual narrative I
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    couldn't find them in books I couldn't
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    find them in art or even in Google
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    search even though women had always been
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    there
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    media had left them behind and there was
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    no modern storytelling going on over the
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    past 50 years the average American has
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    become three generations removed from
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    agriculture without a farmer and the
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    family or even a farm in the
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    neighborhood and in that time the
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    stereotypical image of a farmer was
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    created it's often an older white man
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    lacking in education wearing overalls
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    and a cowboy hat with oat straw between
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    his teeth he's popular in story books
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    and on children's TV shows he teaches
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    lessons about work ethic if a female
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    character appears in these simplistic
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    rural stories she's old and still
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    referred to as the farmer's wife and
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    completely without a story of her own to
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    encourage this white male caricature of
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    a farmer is to erase the historical and
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    present-day impact of millions of
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    farmers and farm workers and to ignore
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    the diversity of gender race and
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    education that has always existed among
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    farmers in this country and so I decided
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    I was going to do something about it I
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    decided I was going to resist that white
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    male narrative of the United States
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    agriculture and illuminate the female
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    farmers who have been left out of the
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    story I celebrate that women have always
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    farmed they have slog through pig stalls
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    driven the combine kept diligent farm
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    records bred and slaughtered livestock
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    save seed and marketed their product
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    additionally they have been tireless
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    organizers pushing against sexism in
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    their industry fighting against harmful
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    farm policies innovating on and off the
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    farm really I just wanted to make the
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    invisible visible but there was a
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    problem how you see I wasn't
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    photographer and I wasn't a writer so I
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    borrowed a camera I got a 15 minute
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    lesson and I got started photographing
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    farmers and it very quickly went from
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    this small photography project to being
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    published globally and I found myself
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    travelling around the world to meet
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    these women in their fields and in their
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    mark milking parlors and I show you this
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    slide because I like big results and
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    this is a big result I mean most of
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    these outlets are not known for their
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    agricultural coverage I mean we're
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    really bearing witness to a revolution
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    where we're seeing agricultural
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    storytelling healthy happening in these
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    types of magazines
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    I mean billboard who knew the USDA only
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    began tracking gender statistics in 1978
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    so women farmers were not even counted
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    until 1978
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    so what policies were not enacted what
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    grants not provided what loans were not
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    given and sadly what farmers quit
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    because they were
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    able to make traction in an environment
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    that didn't even count them that year in
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    1978 women accounted for approximately
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    5% of the principle farm operators in
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    the United States
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    it wasn't until 1981 that the estate
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    laws had changed to allow a widow to
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    inherit the land from her deceased
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    spouse without paying an inheritance tax
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    because farm women would considered
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    helpers instead of farmers and not
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    regularly included in the business
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    documents or land deeds widow to female
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    farmers were forced to prove their
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    essential role in the farm operation or
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    pay a hefty inheritance tax
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    so before 1981 many widowed female
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    farmers were forced to sell off their
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    land to avoid the tax so I think between
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    those two things these laws changing and
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    then women farmers actually starting to
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    be counted from 1982 to 2007 we saw the
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    amount of women-owned operations nearly
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    triple but the US USDA statistics the
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    data are consistent it's not a complete
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    record of the role of women in American
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    agriculture thing like I said women's
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    names were routinely left off of those
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    bank loans and land titles and business
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    documents equipment purchases and so on
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    so today we are seeing what happens when
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    women are missing female farmers now
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    have more trouble gaining access to
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    financial assistance statistically
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    they're a better credit risk in general
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    they make less money than male farmers
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    and more than half of America's female
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    farmers supplement their income with off
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    arm jobs so when I analyze the
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    statistics I had no choice but to read
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    between the lines because the statistics
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    are inherently skewed when the only
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    available data is problematic and gender
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    biased it's impossible to design
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    policies that reflect the true
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    demographic of farmers or to create
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    appropriate paths for accessing
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    financing land and training resources
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    and it's impossible to track progress
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    which is why I'm so excited about what
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    Barbara did with
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    this most recent census it would be
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    really exciting to see these numbers
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    farming does not respect personal
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    boundaries exhaustion levels or breaking
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    points it is a lifestyle filled with
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    beauty and emergencies and all the
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    coinciding human emotions a farmer
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    cannot ever fully leave her farm
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    anastasia admits to needing solitude
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    even craving it in times of high stress
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    but isolation has created its own
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    challenges there is no one to depend on
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    no one to help with the choice Anastasia
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    has fought to acquire knowledge agronomy
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    lease writing marketing animal husbandry
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    she calls to the school of hard knocks a
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    school I'm sure few of us are familiar
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    with just down the road from Anastasia
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    lips Joe she and her husband George
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    opened George's custom meat shop in the
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    1970s George passed away about five
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    years ago and Joe and Anastasia have
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    created a close friendship these women
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    living on the range alone do you look
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    out for one another they butcher turkeys
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    and hogs together Anastasia has begun
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    unofficially apprentice in with Joe
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    she's desperate to soak up that
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    slaughtering and butchering knowledge
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    and Joe seeing potential and Anastasia
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    wants to transfer her skill set her
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    tools perhaps even her entire business
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    they've talked about partnership
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    opportunities or creative financing the
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    soap annotation Anastasia could reopen
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    George's but the day before our visit
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    her well failed for the first time in
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    its history there is worry in
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    Anastasia's voice and anger I mean what
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    will they do out here without water to
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    drink to cook to grow gardens to water
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    the livestock if they cannot get a loan
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    to dry to drill a deeper well for water
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    and what will happen to the land value
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    if there is no water what's the point
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    should Joe and Anastasia leave their
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    land and abandon their plans it's a loss
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    that extends to the entire community
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    it's a missed opportunity for the
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    transference of knowledge and skill a
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    loss that's impossible to quantify and
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    as you know small operations like this
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    without them without them did with him
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    disappearing they create a model neck
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    and there is an update to this story
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    Anastasia did close down her operation
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    and Joe sold her land and moved to Ohio
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    to live with her son and his family as a
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    child growing up in Seoul South Korea
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    Yong spent summers at her cousin's melon
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    and tomato patch outside of the city
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    away from urban life she and crowd
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    encountered a quieter world she sunk her
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    hands into the dirt ate tomatoes right
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    out of the fields it was the 1960s a
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    decade after the end of the Korean War
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    ingredients in refrigeration were scarce
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    young learned to cook from scratch from
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    her mother to ferment and preserve foods
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    to stretch meals in order to feed their
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    family of nine after earning an
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    accounting degree in Chicago Jung moved
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    to Tucson with her family and her two
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    sons to become a full-time farmer the
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    farm has been the center of the universe
  • 00:14:46
    another member of the family and most of
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    the important decisions have been made
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    in alignment with the needs of the farm
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    the balance is tricky the essence of
  • 00:14:56
    their farm she says has been the hard
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    work and role of each person including
  • 00:15:01
    the kids still the farm is a demanding
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    family member
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    there's always endless works as young
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    we're always behind the eight-ball and
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    there is always a million things to do
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    it can gobble you up this will be
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    Chanel's first season as a farmer she is
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    urban farming in the most ethnically
  • 00:15:20
    diverse ZIP code in the United States
  • 00:15:22
    she believes there is a stigma around
  • 00:15:25
    people of color growing food but that
  • 00:15:27
    they still feel very nostalgic about it
  • 00:15:29
    by farming in the public gaze her
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    mission is to connect people of color
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    back to the land
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    and to connect with growing food and to
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    leading healthy lives
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    Kylie remembers a day like it was
  • 00:15:45
    yesterday it was when her father sold
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    everything and retired from farming she
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    can still feel the emotional impact of
  • 00:15:52
    knowing that he had lost his livelihood
  • 00:15:54
    even though she didn't understand the
  • 00:15:56
    reasons after high school she attended
  • 00:15:59
    the local community college to become a
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    nurse but when she became a single mom
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    at 19 she quit school and found working
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    with a seed sales company then one day
  • 00:16:08
    out of the blue she decided she was done
  • 00:16:11
    selling seed and she wanted to farm she
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    pursued one of her seed accounts for a
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    growing contract for potatoes and
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    surprising everyone they gave her a shot
  • 00:16:20
    and it awarded her the contract it was
  • 00:16:23
    so surprising in fact that she didn't
  • 00:16:26
    have anything ready should you even have
  • 00:16:28
    land so she scrambled she found land and
  • 00:16:32
    she got started and looking back she
  • 00:16:34
    shakes her head at how crazy that was I
  • 00:16:36
    mean jumping in with both feet like that
  • 00:16:38
    especially as a single mom but she had
  • 00:16:41
    made the choice and was willing to do
  • 00:16:42
    the work to make it happen Kylee is
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    creative it she looks for just the right
  • 00:16:48
    land once it had lied fallow of water
  • 00:16:51
    rights in power she pays cash leases and
  • 00:16:54
    grows mostly by contract she grows some
  • 00:16:57
    cattle for you that she direct markets
  • 00:16:58
    to local beef producers and all the
  • 00:17:01
    while she's building a marketplace for
  • 00:17:03
    her private label for her potatoes she
  • 00:17:06
    and I met up recently at the federal
  • 00:17:08
    hello John Deere and we jumped in her
  • 00:17:11
    truck for a tour her back seat was
  • 00:17:13
    filled with car seats and empty juice
  • 00:17:15
    boxes and kid toys while we drove around
  • 00:17:17
    to her differently slots one was growing
  • 00:17:21
    silage and the other one was home to
  • 00:17:22
    butternut squash for a baby food company
  • 00:17:24
    she has plans to grow blueberries on her
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    latest least land and we visited her
  • 00:17:30
    pinto bean field to check the beans to
  • 00:17:32
    see if they are dry enough to combine
  • 00:17:33
    she's really proud of her being crop but
  • 00:17:37
    after I left the weather turned and the
  • 00:17:39
    area received record rainfall and her
  • 00:17:41
    crop was ruined weather isn't her only
  • 00:17:46
    challenge though she struggles with
  • 00:17:48
    things like the
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    panics of her circles and pumps the
  • 00:17:52
    pumps run a lot of high volt electricity
  • 00:17:54
    to get the water into the circles and
  • 00:17:56
    it's dangerous if you don't fully
  • 00:17:58
    understand it she doesn't being used to
  • 00:18:02
    doing everything on her own she says it
  • 00:18:03
    was a hard lesson to learn to ask for
  • 00:18:05
    help
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    she recently married in his now mother
  • 00:18:09
    to four children under the age of six
  • 00:18:12
    Kylie says she has the best of both
  • 00:18:14
    worlds are being able to be a work at
  • 00:18:16
    home mom and self-employed she says it's
  • 00:18:19
    not all rainbows and daisies somedays
  • 00:18:21
    those worlds collide and they collide
  • 00:18:23
    hard we talked a lot about the balancing
  • 00:18:27
    of motherhood with entrepreneurship and
  • 00:18:29
    how she struggles to find her groove and
  • 00:18:32
    temper her ambition she says it's just a
  • 00:18:35
    full-time job to maintain the farm she
  • 00:18:38
    has truly wants to do more and more its
  • 00:18:47
    I emigrated to San Diego from her native
  • 00:18:50
    Zimbabwe in 2002 as a refugee with her
  • 00:18:53
    husband and four daughters her first
  • 00:18:55
    order of business was to find land to
  • 00:18:57
    farm and a good school for the girls she
  • 00:19:00
    got her start through the International
  • 00:19:02
    Rescue Committee with a 30 by 40 foot
  • 00:19:04
    garden plot now she farms for lots of
  • 00:19:08
    folks who lease her their backyards she
  • 00:19:11
    told me as we were walking to the back
  • 00:19:13
    of the house to see one of those
  • 00:19:14
    backyards that it was winter and that
  • 00:19:15
    her farm was brown I really had to laugh
  • 00:19:19
    because this is her version of brown she
  • 00:19:22
    hasn't seen a Seattle farm in the winter
  • 00:19:25
    I laughed when I saw this and I think
  • 00:19:29
    that's pretty green before her farming
  • 00:19:31
    day begins she drives an airport shuttle
  • 00:19:34
    bus starting at 4 a.m. and has put all
  • 00:19:37
    her daughter's through college with her
  • 00:19:39
    farming income annie is the founder of
  • 00:19:46
    the first rooftop farm in New York City
  • 00:19:48
    she remains an urban farmer because she
  • 00:19:51
    believes farming right in the public
  • 00:19:52
    gaze is the best way to shape share a
  • 00:19:54
    complete story of how food is grown when
  • 00:19:58
    I asked Annie what her biggest challenge
  • 00:20:00
    was she surprised me
  • 00:20:01
    she said it's can
  • 00:20:03
    sumer ISM and apathy she says ignorance
  • 00:20:06
    is not bliss its disempowerment and
  • 00:20:09
    finding articulate and compelling ways
  • 00:20:11
    to share this position is my most and
  • 00:20:14
    least favorite challenge depending on
  • 00:20:16
    how much sleep I fund also sunburn and a
  • 00:20:20
    healthy fear of Lyme disease I met
  • 00:20:27
    Michelle a fourth-generation farmer in
  • 00:20:29
    the middle of the day in the middle of a
  • 00:20:31
    field to the left or sunflowers and to
  • 00:20:34
    the right golden barley as far as the
  • 00:20:36
    eye could see that was abruptly
  • 00:20:38
    interrupted by this incredible big
  • 00:20:41
    Montana sky for as long as she could
  • 00:20:45
    remember she told everyone she wanted to
  • 00:20:47
    be a farmer and a diesel mechanic she
  • 00:20:50
    myths that she's a pretty lousy mechanic
  • 00:20:54
    after high school she went off to
  • 00:20:56
    college and pursued a career and was
  • 00:20:58
    climbing the corporate ladder then one
  • 00:21:01
    day she received a call it was her dad
  • 00:21:04
    he wanted to talk about dreams and
  • 00:21:06
    careers and then he asked her what her
  • 00:21:09
    dream job was she didn't hesitate it's
  • 00:21:12
    always been to be a farmer so she gave
  • 00:21:17
    up the security the stock options health
  • 00:21:20
    insurance paid vacation it all sounds
  • 00:21:23
    lovely doesn't it and left it all to
  • 00:21:25
    farm the six thousand acre family farm I
  • 00:21:29
    asked her who her mentors were and she
  • 00:21:31
    listed them off Travis Ryan Tony
  • 00:21:36
    les Mitchell mark and I realized none of
  • 00:21:43
    them were women one day she got a phone
  • 00:21:49
    call from a neighbor who asked to buy a
  • 00:21:52
    bushel corn and she said sure come on
  • 00:21:53
    over I'll load it in your truck for you
  • 00:21:55
    and he said well I'd rather do business
  • 00:21:57
    with your father so she said that's fine
  • 00:22:01
    you can do that but you still have to
  • 00:22:03
    write the check out to me because I own
  • 00:22:05
    the corn Michelle is the first woman on
  • 00:22:10
    the Montana Grain Growers executive
  • 00:22:12
    board and was recently elected their
  • 00:22:14
    first woman president
  • 00:22:17
    while she like Kylie struggles with
  • 00:22:19
    balancing ambition with family and farm
  • 00:22:21
    I will not be surprised if we see her as
  • 00:22:24
    the national president within a few
  • 00:22:26
    years
  • 00:22:33
    Stephanie contracted Lyme disease while
  • 00:22:35
    serving our nation in the Coast Guard it
  • 00:22:38
    went undiagnosed for many years and left
  • 00:22:40
    her so ill that she had to sit for up to
  • 00:22:42
    six hours a day on the Navy her doctor
  • 00:22:45
    recommended that she eat as much of
  • 00:22:47
    fresh fruit and vegetables as possible
  • 00:22:48
    and that's when she realized that
  • 00:22:51
    downtown San Diego was devoid of any
  • 00:22:54
    accessible fresh produce so while she
  • 00:22:58
    sat there on her IV she studied County
  • 00:23:01
    policies and regulations and designed
  • 00:23:04
    and plotted an urban farm and as she
  • 00:23:07
    regained health and strengths she began
  • 00:23:09
    to build it slowly but very surely one
  • 00:23:13
    box at a time employing only veterans
  • 00:23:15
    along the way now her small urban farm
  • 00:23:19
    employs up to four veterans and provides
  • 00:23:21
    free fresh vegetables to several
  • 00:23:24
    homeless veteran families as a former
  • 00:23:32
    Capitol Hill journalist Suzanne
  • 00:23:33
    passionately loved politics and her
  • 00:23:35
    participation in the representative
  • 00:23:38
    government she wanted to help change the
  • 00:23:40
    world
  • 00:23:41
    it was intellectualism with sport until
  • 00:23:44
    several events caused her question her
  • 00:23:46
    previously unexamined ideals and lack of
  • 00:23:49
    connection to the land that she so
  • 00:23:50
    dearly loves she quit her job and quite
  • 00:23:53
    literally dropped out now later she
  • 00:23:56
    bought a dairy cow in Greeley it became
  • 00:23:59
    both the impetus and the beginning of
  • 00:24:00
    her farming career the life the Suzanne
  • 00:24:04
    has created maybe appeared to be
  • 00:24:06
    drastically different from the outside
  • 00:24:08
    there's no longer any suits or heels and
  • 00:24:10
    no prestigious bylines but as I spent
  • 00:24:13
    the day with her seeing my first calf
  • 00:24:15
    birth collecting eggs feeding and
  • 00:24:18
    loitering the herd I see that it's a
  • 00:24:21
    life that she approaches each day with
  • 00:24:23
    as much careful thought passion and
  • 00:24:25
    energy as she did her Capitol Hill days
  • 00:24:27
    but now she hopes her hope ideas and
  • 00:24:29
    ideals
  • 00:24:30
    we'll change the world from the ground
  • 00:24:32
    up Karen is a professional hair girl of
  • 00:24:39
    mine I visited her one day on this rainy
  • 00:24:43
    Sunday in the South Bronx at the farmers
  • 00:24:46
    market now there was no real convenient
  • 00:24:49
    train service to go see her and so I had
  • 00:24:52
    to take I think was an uber or a left at
  • 00:24:55
    the time and from the back seat of that
  • 00:24:59
    car I could see all of the corner
  • 00:25:02
    markets advertising their hotdogs and
  • 00:25:04
    soda specials and that was my first
  • 00:25:07
    experience as saying that there could be
  • 00:25:11
    a struggle with access to fresh fruit
  • 00:25:14
    and vegetables and foods when the finest
  • 00:25:19
    dining was just a few miles away but
  • 00:25:23
    Karen had a vision and almost an
  • 00:25:26
    impossible dream that against all these
  • 00:25:29
    odds and restrictions that she would
  • 00:25:31
    have all these people growing food in
  • 00:25:34
    the empty lots in her neighborhood and
  • 00:25:37
    she actually made it happen and some of
  • 00:25:39
    these women in her gardening Posse the
  • 00:25:42
    ladies in their 80s but she needed to
  • 00:25:48
    get these fruit and vegetables into the
  • 00:25:50
    hands of the people of her community so
  • 00:25:52
    she started this farmers market and they
  • 00:25:55
    have a mission that if you come to
  • 00:25:57
    market hungry you will not leave market
  • 00:25:59
    hungry Karen retired from her job as a
  • 00:26:06
    physical therapist and now farms full
  • 00:26:08
    time and at age I'd say she's now what
  • 00:26:12
    68 she's just getting started she's
  • 00:26:15
    incredible Jamie and her twin sister
  • 00:26:21
    Jamie are members of the tunnel Adam
  • 00:26:24
    nation and farmers at the 860 acre San
  • 00:26:27
    Xavier co-op farm just south of Tucson
  • 00:26:29
    in 2007 after earning a degree in fine
  • 00:26:33
    arts Jamie found a job at the San Xavier
  • 00:26:36
    co-op farm she learned to plant gourds
  • 00:26:38
    and corn and had a clean and dry
  • 00:26:41
    temporary beans year after year she
  • 00:26:43
    learned too new
  • 00:26:44
    skills driving tractors and managing
  • 00:26:46
    irrigation cutting hay I always say I
  • 00:26:50
    fell into this but it really opened my
  • 00:26:52
    creative outlet as well chamois says in
  • 00:26:54
    my paintings I use what I see here on
  • 00:26:57
    the farm Jamie also began working at the
  • 00:27:01
    farm growing and preparing food to be
  • 00:27:02
    sold on the tio nation and in Tucson of
  • 00:27:06
    her relationship to agriculture Jamie
  • 00:27:08
    says farming is a love-hate relationship
  • 00:27:11
    sometimes I love it sometimes I hate it
  • 00:27:13
    but I gravitate towards it it pulls me
  • 00:27:16
    back ruth is originally from Eastern
  • 00:27:22
    Washington and raised around gardening
  • 00:27:24
    by her master gardener father Laurie
  • 00:27:26
    studied at cordon bleu and London and
  • 00:27:28
    studied cheese making while living in
  • 00:27:30
    France between the two of them they had
  • 00:27:32
    the skills needed and in 2002 the siren
  • 00:27:35
    call and farming proved to be too
  • 00:27:37
    irresistible they began to incubate
  • 00:27:41
    their farm and test drive their business
  • 00:27:43
    on a cousin's one and a half a girl up
  • 00:27:45
    in downtown Bellevue Washington which is
  • 00:27:47
    quite urban while both working for an
  • 00:27:50
    accounting software firm and like so
  • 00:27:53
    many first-generation women farmers
  • 00:27:54
    today they left their comforts of their
  • 00:27:56
    technology sector careers for the
  • 00:27:58
    volatile yet incredibly rewarding farm
  • 00:28:00
    business their little farm did well and
  • 00:28:04
    with that experience in hands they took
  • 00:28:06
    their nest egg and headed east in 2008
  • 00:28:09
    they found 21 acres in Titan and 2009
  • 00:28:12
    started building the structures they
  • 00:28:13
    needed to start the farm on May 1st and
  • 00:28:17
    2010 they opened their doors and
  • 00:28:19
    launched their first cheese
  • 00:28:21
    unfortunately 2010 was also the midpoint
  • 00:28:24
    of the economic downturn and Ruth and
  • 00:28:26
    alone Laurie found they were unable to
  • 00:28:27
    build and expand as quickly as they had
  • 00:28:29
    hoped and planned at one time Ruth was
  • 00:28:32
    able to pick up consultant work but that
  • 00:28:34
    too disappeared with the downturn this
  • 00:28:37
    forced the farm to be financially
  • 00:28:38
    self-sufficient and in real terms that
  • 00:28:41
    means very long hours of hard labor for
  • 00:28:44
    both hiring help on the farm was just
  • 00:28:46
    not financially an option their workload
  • 00:28:51
    remains their biggest challenge there
  • 00:28:53
    are long work days of chores and making
  • 00:28:55
    cheese and running the business as well
  • 00:28:57
    as
  • 00:28:58
    long drive to Western Washington to make
  • 00:29:00
    deliveries to stores restaurants and
  • 00:29:02
    farmers markets balancing farm and any
  • 00:29:05
    recreation seemed to have just
  • 00:29:06
    disappeared
  • 00:29:07
    Laurie tells me that they have no time
  • 00:29:10
    for so many things that they have lost
  • 00:29:11
    count despite these early setbacks and a
  • 00:29:16
    couple of tragic iron fires along the
  • 00:29:18
    way they are continuing to grow both the
  • 00:29:20
    business and expand their capacity Nitai
  • 00:29:23
    it is turning for small farms like titan
  • 00:29:25
    through direct sales at markets and
  • 00:29:27
    having their product featured at
  • 00:29:28
    high-end restaurants throughout seattle
  • 00:29:30
    area people are becoming aware of the
  • 00:29:32
    incredible flavor that comes from
  • 00:29:34
    farmstead handcrafted cheese they are
  • 00:29:38
    well poised for the future gen is the
  • 00:29:46
    chief agricultural officer of the
  • 00:29:48
    largest rooftop farm in the world it was
  • 00:29:50
    my first visit to a rooftop farm and as
  • 00:29:53
    I climb the stairs to the roof I
  • 00:29:54
    couldn't help but think about how
  • 00:29:56
    different it would be I mean first of
  • 00:29:58
    all I've never actually climbed stairs
  • 00:29:59
    to a farm but even though we walked the
  • 00:30:02
    rows of concrete instead of dirt she
  • 00:30:05
    stopped his taste for crop and that is
  • 00:30:06
    something that I have seen every single
  • 00:30:08
    farmer do she told me about the time
  • 00:30:11
    that she spent in Arizona and the
  • 00:30:13
    Antarctic I'm not gonna say it I'm sorry
  • 00:30:17
    one cup of coffee
  • 00:30:18
    developing hydroponic systems in order
  • 00:30:21
    to grow food in places where it
  • 00:30:22
    sometimes doesn't her systems are light
  • 00:30:26
    enough to build on rooftops and that's
  • 00:30:28
    what she's done in New York and Chicago
  • 00:30:31
    combined they make up about four acres
  • 00:30:33
    of growing space and like all farms
  • 00:30:35
    they're solar-powered but hers may be
  • 00:30:37
    just a little bit differently and unlike
  • 00:30:41
    other farmers she does control the
  • 00:30:43
    weather sometimes from an app on her
  • 00:30:45
    phone
  • 00:30:52
    johanna owns and operates an icelandic
  • 00:30:54
    farm has been in her family for
  • 00:30:55
    generations
  • 00:30:56
    she's born and raised on this land as
  • 00:30:59
    were her six children and now her
  • 00:31:01
    grandchildren but a combination of
  • 00:31:03
    forces threatened to make her farm as
  • 00:31:05
    extinct as the breed of goats that she
  • 00:31:07
    raises this is the only commercial and
  • 00:31:11
    breeding goat farm in Iceland
  • 00:31:12
    and it works specifically one of one of
  • 00:31:14
    the world's oldest and rarest breed of
  • 00:31:16
    goats the Iceland goat for years the
  • 00:31:20
    breed has been teetering on the verge of
  • 00:31:21
    extinction population had fallen to less
  • 00:31:25
    than 90 animals worldwide and feeling as
  • 00:31:28
    if she had to do something to prevent
  • 00:31:29
    the breeds collapse
  • 00:31:30
    she left her successful career as a
  • 00:31:32
    nurse and focused her energy on saving
  • 00:31:34
    the breed now thanks in part to her
  • 00:31:37
    efforts there are over 800 Icelandic
  • 00:31:40
    goats scattered on farms across the
  • 00:31:41
    globe johanna has worked non-stop to
  • 00:31:45
    create public awareness and to create a
  • 00:31:47
    new market for goat meat there cashmere
  • 00:31:50
    wool and dairy products there she just
  • 00:31:53
    looked not to go and we drank that milk
  • 00:31:55
    with our coffee but the financial
  • 00:32:01
    situation became dire and Iceland along
  • 00:32:03
    North the rest of world suffered a
  • 00:32:05
    banking crisis in 2008 and this was more
  • 00:32:07
    of that fallout she was going to have to
  • 00:32:09
    send the farm to auction and the goats
  • 00:32:12
    to slaughter enter in the game of
  • 00:32:16
    Thrones you see this handsome goat is
  • 00:32:19
    somewhat of a TV star he was eaten by
  • 00:32:22
    one of khaleesies dragons and with some
  • 00:32:25
    creative problem-solving she launched a
  • 00:32:27
    crowdfunding campaign and the fans of
  • 00:32:29
    the show stepped up they saved her farm
  • 00:32:32
    and raised enough money for her to build
  • 00:32:33
    a Creamery so that she could build a
  • 00:32:35
    sustainable business for the goats
  • 00:32:39
    losing the farm could have meant the
  • 00:32:41
    loss of Johannes considerable breeding
  • 00:32:43
    expertise as well as nearly half of the
  • 00:32:45
    world's populations of Icelandic goats
  • 00:32:47
    but for Johanna that loss ran deeper as
  • 00:32:51
    it also meant losing the family farm and
  • 00:32:54
    a way of life that's also rapidly
  • 00:32:56
    becoming extinct early
  • 00:33:02
    said that I believe that storytelling
  • 00:33:04
    rewires as for the empathy to make
  • 00:33:05
    change because I believe we are all held
  • 00:33:09
    together by that same narrative thread
  • 00:33:10
    so I told you stories of women who
  • 00:33:12
    created community and ones that paved
  • 00:33:15
    the path for today's female farmers and
  • 00:33:17
    there were stories of water and seeds
  • 00:33:19
    and of soil and saving breeds and it
  • 00:33:22
    made her I'm not I shared the stories of
  • 00:33:25
    successful entrepreneurs and of those
  • 00:33:27
    who failed I told you stories of
  • 00:33:30
    diversity of mentorship and farm
  • 00:33:33
    succession of women who use their wide
  • 00:33:36
    and varied skills some in technology and
  • 00:33:39
    others their ability to nurture but both
  • 00:33:41
    to grow food I tell these women's
  • 00:33:45
    stories to make the case for diversity
  • 00:33:46
    and for mentorship and the need for
  • 00:33:49
    women to be in leadership roles but
  • 00:33:52
    their stories dramatize the real and
  • 00:33:54
    deeper story of generations of women's
  • 00:33:56
    roles and voices being suppressed with
  • 00:34:00
    the female farmer project my intention
  • 00:34:01
    was to create a narrative of American
  • 00:34:03
    agriculture that centers around the
  • 00:34:05
    stories and contributions of female
  • 00:34:07
    farmers and to assert that female
  • 00:34:10
    farmers are essential in the imagining
  • 00:34:12
    and implementation of our future food
  • 00:34:15
    system but I'm also very concerned about
  • 00:34:18
    the historical representation of women
  • 00:34:20
    in agriculture and the stories that have
  • 00:34:22
    gone untold and even though we women
  • 00:34:26
    represent 50 percent of the population
  • 00:34:27
    we only occupy about one half of one
  • 00:34:30
    percent of written history that's 0.5
  • 00:34:35
    percent for those of you who do better
  • 00:34:37
    with numbers and that's a super
  • 00:34:39
    frustrating number for me so my journey
  • 00:34:41
    continues and I'm continuing to set out
  • 00:34:44
    to write the wrong I'm really determined
  • 00:34:46
    to place women back into history we are
  • 00:34:49
    currently in development and begun
  • 00:34:51
    filming a documentary film that we
  • 00:34:52
    called women's work the untold story of
  • 00:34:54
    America's female farmers that website
  • 00:34:58
    there is where you can find the trailer
  • 00:35:00
    if we have time I can show it to you
  • 00:35:03
    [Music]
  • 00:35:04
    let's see here and if you want to follow
  • 00:35:09
    along with the stories here is my social
  • 00:35:12
    media I also have a podcast as I
  • 00:35:16
    mentioned
  • 00:35:16
    and one with Barbara Raider so you can
  • 00:35:18
    actually hear her if you want today and
  • 00:35:20
    listen to the podcast later and you can
  • 00:35:24
    sign up for our newsletter on our
  • 00:35:27
    website fbml former project org where we
  • 00:35:30
    try on a bi-monthly basis to curate
  • 00:35:33
    interesting articles and podcasts and
  • 00:35:36
    information that we think you might want
  • 00:35:38
    to know so I think we can all agree that
  • 00:35:42
    our constituents the female farmer are
  • 00:35:44
    the 1% of Americans that are still
  • 00:35:46
    farming and this is real talk they are
  • 00:35:50
    facing enormous socio-political and
  • 00:35:52
    economic challenges in part because of
  • 00:35:55
    policies that have been implemented by
  • 00:35:56
    leaders without strong ties to farming
  • 00:36:00
    farmers stories can demonstrate the many
  • 00:36:03
    issues that threaten farming access to
  • 00:36:06
    farmland a decrease in water supply an
  • 00:36:08
    increase in weather catastrophes and the
  • 00:36:11
    rise of suicide among our agricultural
  • 00:36:13
    workers it is only by listening to
  • 00:36:16
    stories from those on the front lines of
  • 00:36:17
    food production that the community at
  • 00:36:19
    large can begin to envision and
  • 00:36:21
    understand the policy changes and the
  • 00:36:23
    preservation of farmland that is
  • 00:36:25
    necessary to support our farmers so I'm
  • 00:36:28
    hoping and I'm sending you away inspired
  • 00:36:31
    empowered and ready to help farmers tell
  • 00:36:34
    their stories and please let me know how
  • 00:36:36
    I can help great thank you so much
  • 00:36:43
    doctor that was fascinating and
  • 00:36:46
    beautiful photography for somebody who
  • 00:36:49
    heard what did you say a 15 minute
  • 00:36:50
    lesson I picked up a camera five years
  • 00:36:56
    ago so thank you yeah well I think you
  • 00:36:59
    found your calling in storytelling
  • 00:37:01
    I appreciate that does anybody have any
  • 00:37:06
    questions you want me to take questions
  • 00:37:07
    we have time we have some time for some
  • 00:37:09
    questions I have put out a call I'm not
  • 00:37:11
    seeing anything right now I guess I
  • 00:37:13
    would just add my question would be sort
  • 00:37:15
    of like so what's next for you what's
  • 00:37:16
    coming up in the coming year I am
  • 00:37:20
    working on funding the film fundraising
  • 00:37:23
    is as you know a it's a bear and so and
  • 00:37:28
    in doing agriculture storytelling is
  • 00:37:29
    very
  • 00:37:30
    difficult to get on broadcast and your
  • 00:37:35
    mainstream media but we've had some
  • 00:37:37
    successes as I showed you and and I've
  • 00:37:40
    had some successes in legislature as
  • 00:37:42
    well I was able to help pass the
  • 00:37:44
    legislation here in Washington State
  • 00:37:46
    that helps fund mental health resources
  • 00:37:49
    for agricultural workers and both
  • 00:37:51
    English and Spanish and we were able to
  • 00:37:53
    get similar legislation into the farm
  • 00:37:56
    bill and it's passed in the farm bill
  • 00:37:57
    and fully funded to get mental health
  • 00:38:00
    resources for our farm workers and
  • 00:38:02
    farmers across the nation so we're
  • 00:38:05
    really super proud that we've had
  • 00:38:07
    legislative success as well as you know
  • 00:38:10
    success and the media sort of you know
  • 00:38:12
    mainstream media because oftentimes
  • 00:38:14
    you'll see a lot of this just happening
  • 00:38:17
    in a bubble and I really just wanted to
  • 00:38:18
    reach out to you know the people who are
  • 00:38:20
    curious about who's growing their food
  • 00:38:22
    and you know get them to understand the
  • 00:38:25
    real real challenges that these were men
  • 00:38:27
    are facing all farmers are facing but
  • 00:38:29
    particularly women yeah okay we've got a
  • 00:38:34
    couple questions now how did you come
  • 00:38:37
    into contact with these women were they
  • 00:38:39
    part of an organization or group did
  • 00:38:40
    they contact you did you contact them in
  • 00:38:45
    the very beginning I went through every
  • 00:38:48
    single if I was going to be in a town I
  • 00:38:50
    would look up that farmers market look
  • 00:38:53
    up every single person that was listed
  • 00:38:55
    on the farmers market website and then
  • 00:38:57
    go to their website to see who was
  • 00:38:59
    farming there and if it was a woman then
  • 00:39:01
    I would contact her so it was a lot of
  • 00:39:04
    research in the beginning to find
  • 00:39:05
    because there was no database
  • 00:39:07
    I've now built a beautiful database
  • 00:39:09
    which is great I've had over 500 women
  • 00:39:12
    nominate themselves to be part of the
  • 00:39:15
    film or the female farmer project yeah I
  • 00:39:19
    mean it was just a you know at a
  • 00:39:22
    terrific sort of you know referrals or
  • 00:39:25
    you know researching through websites
  • 00:39:28
    and lots of lots of different ways in
  • 00:39:31
    the beginning now yeah women we've got
  • 00:39:35
    enough sort of saturation and women for
  • 00:39:38
    the most part know about us and nominate
  • 00:39:40
    huh that's great I was I was struck by
  • 00:39:45
    how many I was talking on the first day
  • 00:39:48
    about sort of the influx in agriculture
  • 00:39:51
    of sort of what we call the career
  • 00:39:52
    changers the women who are in their 40s
  • 00:39:54
    and 50s and have had careers largely in
  • 00:39:57
    education in healthcare and corporate
  • 00:39:59
    America and who are coming back to the
  • 00:40:00
    farm now and I was excited to see that
  • 00:40:03
    you well and that's what really and you
  • 00:40:07
    know in the very beginning intrigued me
  • 00:40:09
    because why would these women you know
  • 00:40:11
    have this encore career in such an
  • 00:40:15
    incredibly hard job I mean it was like
  • 00:40:23
    such an intriguing idea to me that there
  • 00:40:26
    had to be something there and so that
  • 00:40:28
    was you know I just wanted to dig and
  • 00:40:30
    figure that out
  • 00:40:31
    yeah it's this is a shirt you know if
  • 00:40:37
    you look on social media and tag this is
  • 00:40:40
    women's work you'll see a lot of the
  • 00:40:42
    women around the world wearing that
  • 00:40:43
    shirt that's shirt that helps us fund
  • 00:40:46
    the film the production's awesome ah
  • 00:40:50
    let's see we've got do you do live
  • 00:40:53
    presentations and how could somebody
  • 00:40:55
    work with you to get your stories told
  • 00:40:58
    in our area I do I have traveled around
  • 00:41:04
    the world giving trying to bring these
  • 00:41:06
    stories to life on stage I have decided
  • 00:41:11
    to take sort of the first half of this
  • 00:41:13
    year off from that so that I can really
  • 00:41:16
    focus on fundraising for the film and
  • 00:41:20
    look at here you are it's it's a hard
  • 00:41:40
    thing to fill Barbara Raiders shoes and
  • 00:41:42
    I am honored to just try to help a
  • 00:41:45
    little bit so I think you did a
  • 00:41:48
    delightful job in a very different way
  • 00:41:52
    I think stories are always a really good
  • 00:41:55
    way to introduce data and Barbara is
  • 00:41:57
    going to give us a home a whole lot of
  • 00:42:00
    data which will help is interesting when
  • 00:42:06
    my first asked to speak was to come to
  • 00:42:11
    Washington DC and speak at George
  • 00:42:13
    Washington University and when I looked
  • 00:42:16
    at the agenda everybody on the list was
  • 00:42:19
    you know high-level governments like you
  • 00:42:21
    know ambassadors to Africa or had a PhD
  • 00:42:24
    at the end of their name you know these
  • 00:42:26
    are very accomplished women and I was
  • 00:42:28
    like why did they invite the
  • 00:42:30
    photographer I just don't understand I
  • 00:42:32
    was really feeling very insecure until I
  • 00:42:34
    got there and I saw the presentation so
  • 00:42:36
    I was like oh context it's it's not that
  • 00:42:43
    interesting to look at pie charts we're
  • 00:42:51
    talking about yeah well I yeah it's it's
  • 00:42:56
    really important for me to sort of and
  • 00:42:57
    one of my end goals for where the female
  • 00:43:00
    karma project is didn't donate the whole
  • 00:43:02
    thing to the Library of Congress so that
  • 00:43:04
    those images become part of the public
  • 00:43:06
    domain nice I hope someday that there
  • 00:43:11
    are little vignettes that are part of
  • 00:43:13
    the census so that when you go to the
  • 00:43:15
    NASA census there are actually little
  • 00:43:17
    snippets of farmers telling their story
  • 00:43:19
    but yeah they're working very hard at
  • 00:43:21
    that it's it's interesting I went to a
  • 00:43:23
    farm and they said oh the USDA was just
  • 00:43:25
    here and they said we're trying to do
  • 00:43:27
    storytelling like the female farmer
  • 00:43:29
    project and she said that was so funny
  • 00:43:31
    because she's coming in two days so I'm
  • 00:43:34
    very proud that I've inspired other
  • 00:43:38
    people to continue to story tell because
  • 00:43:39
    that has been entirely the goal I have
  • 00:43:42
    self-funded this by myself
  • 00:43:45
    it's you know people would call it a
  • 00:43:48
    passion project I call it my purpose
  • 00:43:51
    excellent good way to do it so let me
  • 00:43:54
    just say thank you again to our drah and
  • 00:43:58
    for everyone or
  • 00:44:00
    and we will definitely have your
  • 00:44:03
    information and links to your sites on
  • 00:44:05
    the website so people can follow our
  • 00:44:07
    joke and everybody else you've got 9
  • 00:44:11
    minutes to stretch refill that a mug
  • 00:44:14
    hydrate and then we will be back to talk
  • 00:44:19
    to Aaron about legal issues thanks Mary
  • 00:44:23
    hi thank you
  • 00:44:25
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