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Soil Sisters – Cook up Change One Potluck at a Time

May 5, 2018 | Posted by Mark Stultz |

Soil Sisters – Cook up Change One Potluck at a Time

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Date & Time: Saturday, June 16th, 12:00 pm

Location: Purple Flag Tent

Local networks of women farmers and sustainability activists are powerful ways to transfer skills, knowledge, and support along with empowering leadership. Hear advice from the field on how these networks begin, and what it takes to sustain them. Leave empowered and inspired to launch a network in your home community. Join Lisa to learn about the fruitful harvest of outcomes via “Soil Sisters”, a local informal network in Southern Wisconsin farm-hood now meeting for over eight years, including electing women to County Board, successfully suing the state over the ban on the sale of homemade goods, and running the largest women farmer annual tour in the country. All done over lots of shared laughter, friendship, and pie.

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Lisa Kivirist, Co-Author of Soil Sisters, Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring, and Rural Renaissance

Lisa Kivirist embodies the growing ecopreneuring movement: innovative entrepreneurs who successfully blend business with making the world a better place. A Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the MN Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of MN, and a Kellogg Food & Community Fellow, Lisa's work focuses on championing rural leadership opportunities amongst female farmers and food-based entrepreneurs. Lisa founded and directs the award-winning Rural Women's Project - an innovative initiative of the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service designed to support women farmers and food businesses by providing networking, training, and support. She also helped found a national collaborative venture 'Plate to Politics' that provides leadership training for women in sustainable agriculture. Lisa is co-author - with her husband, John Ivanko - of Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, Edible Earth, the award-winning ECOpreneuring, a compact, dynamic tool kit for a fresh approach to entrepreneurial thinking, blending passion for protecting and preserving the planet with small business pragmatics, as well as Rural Renaissance - capturing the American dream of farm living for contemporary times. Her latest book - Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Growing Food - supports women farmers with agriculture business training through a gender lens. Lisa runs the award-winning Inn Serendipity Bed & Breakfast and Farm with her family in southwest Wisconsin. The Inn is completely powered by renewable energy and considered among the 'Top Ten Eco-Destinations in North America.' She shares her farm with her husband, their son, a 10kW wind turbine, and millions of ladybugs. For more information, visit innserendipity.com

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