Success StoryDeveloping a Women in Agriculture Program at Kentucky State University
Developing a Women in Agriculture Program at Kentucky State University
Author: Marion Simon
Planning Unit: Agriculture and Natural Resources Programs
Major Program: Small Farm Management
Outcome: Initial Outcome
In the fall of 2020, a Kentucky State University team began working with the Women of the Land subcommittee of American Farmland Trust. Over the first two months, we held two virtual focus groups focusing on African American women and Caucasian women farmers in Eastern and Central Kentucky. The results of these focus groups were evaluated and resulted in a presentation at the Kentucky Small, Limited-Resource, Minority Farmers Conference. Committee members were from Kentucky State University, Virginia State University (retired professional, currently employed by Women of the Land), and a representative of American Farmland Trust's Women of the Land staff in Oregon. The program went well and plans for "women's learning circles" began. Throughout the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, agents, specialists, and farm women shared timing preferences, location preferences, and remote and "in-person" potential meetings using the popular Third Thursday Thing as a guide. The program underwent a trest run on June 16, 2021. This being successful, the first two virtual "women's circle trainings" will be held on June 22 and June 24, 2021 (forthcoming). We anticipate that this will result in a successful learning and sharing program that continues well into the future.
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