Queen Bee Session 11: Heidi Hankley
Queen Bee Sessions
The Queen Bee Sessions are monthly-ish conversations with Wisconsin Women in Conservation (WiWiC), a collaboration between four Wisconsin agricultural organizations who are seeking to connect more women landowners and farmers with conservation resources and funding. The podcast is hosted by WiWiC Communications Specialist Kriss Marion. In July, Kriss chatted with Heidi Hankley, a prairie property owner in rural Green County. Heidi won the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources “State Natural Areas Volunteer Stewards of the Year Award in 2022 for a decade of efforts to preserve and enhance...
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Queen Bee Session 10: Patty Schevers
Queen Bee Sessions
The Queen Bee Sessions are monthly(ish) conversations with Wisconsin Women in Conservation, a collaboration between four Wisconsin agricultural organization seeking to connect more women landowners and farmers with conservation resource and funding. This podcast is hosted by WiWiC Communications Specialist Kriss Marion. In July, Kriss talks with Patti Schevers of Our Thunder Moon, a fourth generation land steward on her family’s Century Farm in Oneida, WI. Patti, her family, and her partner Brad took the family's 100 acres through a conservation transformation in 2020. With the help of...
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Queen Bee Session 9: Lauren Langworthy
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In May 2023, we're talking with Lauren Langworthy of Blue Ox Farm in Wheeler. Lauren calls herself a grass farmer and explores her farm history from organic veggies to grazing diverse livestock. She’s also the director of Special Projects with Wisconsin Farmers Union and discusses the importance of mentorship and support in the farm community. The Queen Bee Sessions feature Wisconsin women farmers, landowners and conservationists who are making strides to protect soil, water, and wildlife in our fair state. The Sessions are hosted by Wisconsin Women in Conservation...
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Queen Bee Session 8: Joy Miller
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This month we’re talking with Joy Miller of Keewaydin Farms in Viola, Wisconsin, and the Executive Director of Driftless Curiosity, a land-based non-profit that seeks to foster the public's connection to conservation and land. Miller helps run the farm’s CSA and hosts 30 experiential events on the farm each season. Follow her Driftless Curiosity Journal on instagram and Facebook. Read the Journal and sign up for events at Drifltesscuriosity.org. For more information on Wisconsin Women in Conservation events and to receive The Buzz monthly e-newsletter, visit...
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Queen Bee Session 7: Una VanDuvall & Ife Olatunji
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The Queen Bee Sessions feature Wisconsin women farmers, landowners and conservationists who are making strides to protect soil, water, and wildlife in our fair state. The Sessions are hosted by Wisconsin Women in Conservation communications lead Kriss Marion, who practices managed grazing with sheep and hosts farmstay guests at Circle M Market Farm in SW Wisconsin. She kicks off Women’s History Month 2023 by talking with history makers Una VanDuvall of Milwaukee, a community organizer with , and her talented daughter Ife Olatunji, visual anthropologist and founder of . These women have deep...
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Queen Bee Session 6: Kirsten Jurcek
Queen Bee Sessions
The Queen Bee Sessions are monthly conversations with Wisconsin Women in Conservation, a collaboration between four Wisconsin agricultural organizations seeking to connect more women landowners and farmers with conservation resources. The host is Kriss Marion of Circle M Market Farm, who is the WiWiC Communications Lead and a small-scale sheep grazier in Lafayette County. Her conversation with Kirsten Jurcek of Brattset Family farm covered a wide range of topics with this experienced beef grazier: regenerative agriculture, working lands conservation easements, community, soil health and human...
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Queen Bee Session 5: Ayla Graden-Dodge
Queen Bee Sessions
The Queen Bee Sessions are monthly conversations with Wisconsin Women in Conservation, a collaboration between four Wisconsin agricultural organizations seeking to connect more women landowners and farmers with conservation resources. The host is Kriss Marion of Circle M Market Farm, who is the WiWiC Communications Lead and a small-scale sheep grazier in Lafayette County. On Labor Day, Marion interviewed Graden-Dodge, the mother of three young children and the primary manager at Blackbrook Farm in Amery, the 140-acre diversified organic meat and produce operation she owns with her husband...
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Queen Bee Session 4: Harriet Behar
Queen Bee Sessions
In the June 2022 Queen Bee Session, host Kriss Marion visits with Harriet Behar of Sweet Springs Farm, a 160-acre veggie, herb, egg and honey operation in Gays Mills. 26 acres of the property are restored prairie installed by Behar and her husband, an much is in woods and streams as well. Behar has been an organic educator for 40 years, through UW Madison and Marbleseed. She is an organic inspector and has been on over 2,500 farms as part of her work. Behar is now a Conservation Coach with Wisconsin Women in Conservation, and mentors women who want to implement more conservation on their land....
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Queen Bee Session 3: Marci Hess
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In the May 2022 Queen Bee Session, host Kriss Marion visits with her neighbor Marci Hess, a native habitat steward in rural Lafayette County, on the edge of the Driftless Region. Marci believes the Driftless should be declared the 8th wonder of the world, for all the unique geology and diverse habitat. She talks about “chunking out” the hills and ravines of her property - taking on different sections to rehabilitate each year so that the task of prairie restoration isn’t so overwhelming. Marci discusses her library of 500 references books, research on her kestrel nest boxes,...
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Queen Bee Session 2: Jennifer Nelson
Queen Bee Sessions
Queen Bee host Kriss Marion has an early-spring conversation with Jennifer Nelson of Humble Pie Farm in Plum City, on the banks of Plum Creek. That’s right - Jennifer’s greenhouse nursery operation is just miles from the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder and it’s just as lovely and aspirational a landscape as you’d imagine from reading the books. A former elementary teacher and farm market manager, Jennifer was also a founding member of the Wisconsin Women in Conservation Team, but has recently moved on to devote herself full time to growing organic flower, herb and veggie transplants...
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