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 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.
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 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 is a farmworker and justice leader as well as the Executive Director of Community to Community Development.
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.
Helen Wilson achieved recognition as a leading figure in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and, in later years, as a writer.
1800s New Zealand market gardener and farmer
New Zealand farmer, community worker and philanthropist
Sarah O’Connell ran a notable dairy, having 50 cows milking in 1856.