More than 40,000 young Canadian women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.
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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2025: Women who fed a nation
Documentary ‘We Lend a Hand’ chronicles the lives of farmerettes and farm labour during the Second World War
Women who fed a nation
More than 40,000 young women supported the war effort between the 1940s and early 1950s, helping grow and harvest crops amid labour shortages. They were called Farmerettes.
Farm women face old challenges
There are more female farmers around, but gender bias continues to rear its ugly head, panelists say
Farm women’s contributions are more recongized than past decades, but women still face challenges, exclusion and bias in the agriculture sector, according to Influential Women in Canadian Agriculture Summit panelists.
Resilience, resourcefulness, inequality: revisiting the ‘farm wife’
A fraught Twitter conversation raised deep questions of how women relate to agriculture, and how agriculture treats them
Farm wife’ or ‘Farmer’s wife.’ Some women embrace these as near-heroic titles, while others feel they relegate them to supporting roles in their farm’s story. Either way, it stirs up strong emotions, as Megz Reynolds recently experienced after she posted to Twitter questioning the term’s longevity in the agro-sphere. “Why are so many in agriculture
Feds pondering more self-reliance in Canada’s food
'Even if we are already in a good position, we can always do better,' Bibeau says
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is looking for ways to make Canada’s food supply more autonomous. In an interview Thursday, Bibeau pointed to her minority Liberal government’s pledge in the throne speech to further support the food value chain. That could mean a review of food infrastructure across the country, according to Bibeau. Specifics aren’t yet
Documentary explores women farmers’ role in ending hunger
‘Common Strength’ shows Kenyan farm life through the eyes of a ‘fish out of water’ Manitoba woman
Documentary “Common Strength,” exploring how empowering women farmers frees them to feed their families and flourish in their communities, debuted in Winnipeg on October 15. “If we’re not talking about women in agriculture, we’re missing a huge swath of women,” said Carol Thiessen, senior policy adviser with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, which sponsored the film. Why
Linked by technology
Manitoba Farm Women’s conference panel says technology can connect women in agriculture into powerful networks
Women who farm and live in rural Manitoba need relationships with each other, not merely ‘connections,” — not easy to establish or maintain given provincial geography. But organizations well established and new are working hard to change that, and with a high-tech twist. Why it matters: Manitoba women in the agriculture sector can be geographically
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
