Edith Niederer
Dairy farmer active in the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union
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Michiyo Tsujimura
Michiyo Tsujimura (辻村みちよ) was a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist known for her pioneering work on green tea components. She was the first woman in Japan to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture.
Catherine Mathieson
New Zealand community leader
Theodora FitzGibbon
Irish cookery expert and writer
Nellie Cashman
Irish-American/Canadian frontier entrepreneur and philanthropist
Mary Hean Alexander, Sr
British wine and spirit merchant
Mary Anne Locke
Irish distiller and philanthropist
Barbe-Nicole Clicquot
Even though she lived her life amidst a series of bloody revolutions, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin spun gold from grapes.
Marguerite Patten
During the war in that role, via practical demonstrations, pamphlets and a BBC radio broadcast called Kitchen Front, she advised Britain on how to eat well and stay healthy using the rationed, limited and sometimes unpalatable foodstuffs available.
Mary Ann Gilbert
English allotment activist