Join in for "Lunch and Learn: Women Landowners Approaching Conservation Practices with Dr. Jean Eells" Jan. 5 from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Central.
Dr. Jean Eells will discuss how women landowners are using their land to improve water, soil, and wildlife. Dr. Eells, the operator of E Resources Group, has been doing this work with various partners for the past 15 years and has reached more than 3,500 women landowners through conservation and outreach discussions. She is currently preparing to host four virtual workshops for women landowners, the first happening next week. The workshop series will offer examples of how women landowners can uniquely approach conservation and the resulting great outcomes.
Dr. Eells was a Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioner in Hamilton County, Iowa, where she observed over the course of two CRP re-enrollment cycles that out of 50 folders each time, there were only three women's names. That sparked a journey to discover and address why women aren't active in the numbers they should be considering. Considering that in Iowa, women own or co-own half the farmland. This work of a lifetime has earned three national recognitions for helping spark a movement now spread across multiple states with women creating change for conservation. Dr. Eells grew up on an Iowa farm where there were no cockleburs and currently manages the farm with her siblings and possibly the best tenant in the state.
Categories: Iowa, Rural Lifestyle