Wisconsin Women's Sustainable Farming Network Records, 1992-2003


Summary Information
Title: Wisconsin Women's Sustainable Farming Network Records
Inclusive Dates: 1992-2003

Creator:
  • Wisconsin Women's Sustainable Farming Network
Call Number: Mss 1217; PH 7120; VHC 226-VHC 228

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box), 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 folder), and 3 videorecordings (VHS)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Records, 1992-2003, of the Wisconsin Women's Sustainable Farming Network (WWSFN), documenting the activities of an organization of women farmers using sustainable practices. The network also supported information sharing and fellowship among like-minded farmers. Includes membership and conference materials, financial records, newsletters, news clippings, and photographs. Also includes three videorecordings of the organization's inaugural workshop in October 1992 as part of a conference sponsored by the Western Wisconsin Sustainable Farming Network.

Note:

Forms part of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection.

The Wisconsin Historical Society Library holds the WWSFN publication:
Women in charge: tales and teachings from our farms, 2002,
as well as two related publications by Neva Hassanein:
Changing the way America farms: knowledge and community in the sustainable agriculture movement, 1999, and
Exchanging knowledge, building community: farmer networks and the sustainable agriculture movement, circa 1997



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01217
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Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by Faye Jones, Spring Valley, Wisconsin, June 7, 2019. Accession Number: M2019-070


Processing Information

Processed by Julia Wong, November 2019.


Contents List
Mss 1217
Box   1
Folder   1
Collected materials regarding women in agriculture, 1991-1997
Box   1
Folder   2
Conference materials, meeting notes, 1992-2001
Box   1
Folder   3
Financial records, 1995-2003
Box   1
Folder   4
Grant applications, correspondence, 1993-1997
Box   1
Folder   5
Member directories, 1996, 1998-1999, 2001
Box   1
Folder   6
Member survey, 1996
Box   1
Folder   7
News clippings, 1992-2001
Box   1
Folder   8
Newsletters, 1994-2003
PH 7120
Folder   1
Photographs
Note: Includes images of a meeting and a building project.
Videorecordings
VHC 226-VHC 227
"Women in Sustainable Agriculture" workshop: Diane Kaufmann, Allan Nation, Kathy Pulvermacher, Janet McNalley, 1992 October 17
VHC 228
Denise Molloy's back health presentation, 1992 October 17?
Note: Label reads, "Diane's back presentation."