Iowa has a successful new outreach project—Women, Land and Legacy: Building Your Farms' Future Today (WLL)^SM. This project was started in 2004 and is expanding and gaining interest from many parts of Iowa. WLL^SM involves government, non-profit organizations, and faith based organizations and works to reach agricultural women in rural areas.

Read more about this project and its impact: See Evaluation results [November 2010] or a news release about this report.

Goals

• For women to inform agencies and organizations of their needs and what the agencies and organizations can do to help meet those needs.

• To develop a local network of agricultural women who will decide what programs, projects, and information they need to assist them in their farming and conservation decision making.

Vision Statement

Women, Land and Legacy^SM helps agricultural women come together to converse, listen and become empowered to act on their landscape and in their community.

Mission Statement

Through small group dialogue and focused conversation processes used by Women, Land, and Legacy^SM, Iowa agricultural women are given the opportunity to inform agencies and organizations of their strengths and needs and what specific outreach strategies would serve them best.

 

"Women, Land and Legacy is a model for success as it provides education and information targeted to and locally led by women. It is empowering and confidence-building." — Wapello County
	"Women, Land and Legacy is a great way to learn and listen." — Wright County "We, as women, have a big opportunity for change and the opportunity to support those changes." — Howard County

Participating Counties in Iowa