Audra Mulkern on the Female Farmer Project

Published: Jan. 22, 2017, 2 p.m.

AUDRA MULKERN is a cook, writer, photographer and a podcaster, who lives in a farming community. She noticed the face of the farmers in her own community was starting to change as more and more women were applying to become interns.Today, she is putting good food in the spotlight and changing the way you look at farming and the food on your plate. THE FEMALE FARMER PROJECT documents the rise of women in agriculture. It is a chronicle of images and stories of female farmers who are tasked with family, farm, often an outside job, and are creating change in our food systems. The project has garnered international recognition, and has been featured in Huffington Post, Modern Farmer, grist and a number of magazines. It was recently in exhibition at United Nations in New York, IFAD building in Rome, FarmAid30, TEDxManhattan 2015 and won the Cascade Harvest Coalition Wendell Berry award for 2015. Find out more at www.femalefarmproject.org & www.audramulkern.com Audra can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram