Beyond Fencelines: Women in Ranching Confluence 2020
Love and thanks to all the amazing women and organizations who made this event so special. Highlights are coming soon!
We had a blast at the first Women in Ranching Confluence
November 13-15th was the first virtual Women in Ranching Confluence. It won't be the last! Thank you to our sponsors and to all the amazing women who presented and participated.
Our Vision
WLA’s Women in Ranching program envisions a culture of western ranching that acknowledges and celebrates the diversity of our land stewards.
At this critical juncture, the face of rural leadership is changing. Women have always played a vital role in the care and stewardship of our lands, but in our traditional ranching communities, women’s work has historically been hidden work.
Today, there are more women inheriting, acquiring, managing, studying, and in other ways stepping up and out as aspiring leaders in agriculture. WinR is expanding its reach with a core belief that investing in women means investing in strong rural communities, improved land stewardship and increased collaborative and creative approaches in the West.
Join us on this incredible journey, to connect and support, educate and inspire, a growing network of resilient social capital.
Join a
Circle
We hope to have in-person circles across the West in 2021 at the locations below.
Click to learn more and sign up to get updates as registration opens or any changes are made.
Diamond Cross Ranch
Birney, MT
J Bar L Ranch
Twin Bridges, MT
Wild Rose Center
Existing Circle - fully enrolled
Double J Ranch
Daniel, WY
Roam Ranch
Fredericksburg, TX
PT Ranch
Ione, CA
What our participants say
Generous ranch owners offer their ranch locations free of charge to our program and help to organize catering services, thereby keeping Circle membership fees low for participants. Women in Ranching provides a team of facilitators who work with the landowners and ranch staff to bring a cohort (we call them circles) of about 20 women together. Each circle comes together for a one-year, two-gathering course, with ample opportunities for peer to peer learning, leadership building and intentional community development. We emphasize permission, emergence and acceptance.
Women in Ranching Circles catalyze action: books have been written, partnerships have formed, business concepts have become reality, monthly rural women’s groups have taken shape and these women have begun to say YES to their dreams. These gatherings create meaningful progress in ranching through building an intricate, resilient network of dynamic social capital that is centered in empowering and supporting women’s work on the land. Our facilitators hold space for these women to explore roadblocks and find strength in their unique voice.
The first Women in Ranching Circle was hosted in 2016 by Paicines Ranch, in California. Two years and several convenings later, WinR found a permanent home with the Western Landowners Alliance, a West-wide organization advancing policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes and native species.
Today, we are a growing collaborative of women who convene on host ranches to learn, play and find a renewed awareness of inner abundance and resiliency. These gatherings activate women to connect and share with each other and strengthen our collective voice for the betterment of our rural communities.
Women in Ranching (WinR) emerged in direct response to an expressed need: working-lands women throughout the West were seeking ways to connect with one another, to promote leadership and inspire creative solutions for how best to support a growing resource of female leaders.
Stories from Women in Ranching
Herding to reduce depredation
By Guest Author |
Hilary and Andrew Anderson manage cattle and range using a combination of progressive range management practices, electric fencing, low-stress range riding and herding in southeast Montana. By the mid-2000s, they…
Springing from farm to wild and back again
By Alex Few |
This May marks my 5th anniversary of walking first irrigation water down this land. Today is the first year I’ve truly heard the spring call of a pair of sandhill…
The Importance of Family
By Guest Author |
The importance of family, of daughters and sisters and brothers, and the parents who love them and support their knowledge and skill-building, runs throughout this story.
The WinR Story
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