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Causes: Environment, Land Resources Conservation
Mission: To provide charitable constituencies with access to lesbian land and to provide access to charitable programs to any land related lesbian community
Programs: The organization continued its advocacy & networking services for apprentices looking to be on land communities and resourcing lands in membership transition. The organization sponsored the national women, food and agriculture conference in madison, wi, nov 2-5, 2017, distributed print resources and network materials at table in exhibition hall; board members presented three workshops on rural women's networks, rural sociology of lesbians in the midwest, and generations of women on land: ways to access, title, enterprise, finance, conserve and transfer land. The organization updated our publication "on our own terms, and put out a call for contributors to an anthology of lesbians living on land. The organization developed new programs to help women veterans access land and training, food insecure women receive food from lesbian farmers, address racism and misogyny in access to formal and informal resources, assess accessibility for lesbians with disability, and connect experienced rural professionals and apprentices. The organization developed a website with links to programs in which underserved and isolated rural people may participate.