Wendy Johnson talks sustainable farming at Joia Food Farm
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Wendy Johnson is a farmer from Charles City, Iowa. She was born and raised on a farm a few miles from where she lives today. She left the rural life...
show moreWendy also works on her family farm with her dad, Erwin. Her dad is a 3rd generation farmer and grows conventional corn and soybeans. She works with him, learning how to manage a commodity crop farm, while she discovers alternative ways to be more environmentally and economically sustainable. She is using the small acreage that she rents from her family farm to incubate her ideas and try methods of production in hopes to expand.
Wendy is on the cover of a book called "Women and the Land" by Barbara Hall and photographer Kathryn Gamble (Icecube Press) and has a chapter in the book along with 24 other women involved in agriculture around Iowa. You can buy the book now on Amazon.
Find out more about Wendy and her farm at WWW.JOIAFOODFARM.COM
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