Elizabeth Coleman White
Elizabeth Coleman White developed the US’s first cultivated blueberry.
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Adeline Warfield Hornbek
1800s American rancher
Rosa Maria Bezerra Nieto
Rosa would be left a widow and single mother in 1740. She cared for not only the six children, but the family’s ranch and mine holdings. This she performed with resolve, determination, and a keen business acumen.
Anita Lett
Irish rural activist
Alana Johnson
A founding member of Australian Women in Agriculture in 1993, she is recognized nationally and internationally for her work in Change Management, Leadership Training and Rural Development and was the 2010 Victorian Rural Women’s Award winner
Ina Higgins
Ina Higgins was one of the first women to enrol at the Burnley Horticultural College in Melbourne in 1899, receiving her Certificate of Competency in 1900. She subsequently had a lengthy career as a distinguished landscape gardener.
Alice Tripp
A self-proclaimed “jumper-inner,” Alice Tripp made her mark as a grassroots activist and self-taught farmer. She was a key leader of a movement opposing the CU Powerline, which began construction on western Minnesota farmland in the early 1970s.
Hannah Jensen Kempfer
Hannah Jensen Kempfer was the first woman from rural Minnesota elected to the state legislature, serving nine terms in the Minnesota legislature between 1922 and 1942.
Rosalinda Guillen
Rosalinda Guillen is a farmworker and justice leader as well as the Executive Director of Community to Community Development.
Nurhaliza Mohmath
Mohamath, as the food justice coordinator for the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) works directly with Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color farmers and advocates to support them.