Through a highly unique collaboration involving multiple external partners, a Luther College team (Jodi Enos-Berlage, PI), is currently in Year 1 of a recently awarded four-year grant, Regenerating Soil and Community (RSC). This project is designed to grow knowledge, confidence, and community, particularly among women landowners, to both inspire and enable regenerative agriculture practices. Work with our first woman landowner cohort has been highly successful and has identified and elevated additional needs. Specifically, cohort members have expressed interest in furthering their knowledge and skills to sensitively and effectively engage with their tenants, including connecting them to helpful (human)resources. To this end, we seek funding to support additional learning/engagement sessions that would bring in external expertise and take place in comfortable settings conducive to meaningful conversation. Our goal to increase regenerative agriculture practices through women is in strong alignment with the Central Midwest Climate Opportunities and Learning Project, as our work will serve to both sequester more carbon in soil and build climate resilience across the landscape.
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Central Midwest Climate Opportunities and Learning (CO-Learn)
University of Iowa – College of Public Health
145 N. Riverside Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242
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We are funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NA23OAR4310629. Established in 2023, CO-Learn is one of several NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) teams.