What if instead of avoiding invertebrates, we invited them into our spaces? What if we designed our spaces to welcome and support bugs, bees, butterflies, and beetles? Could we reclaim some of that everyday wonder we remember from childhood?

It's Pollinator Month, and the perfect time to announce WiWiC Summer Camp 2026 - which is all about invertebrates! That's right - we're getting up close and personal with those tiny (and sometimes not so tiny) conservation co-conspirators without backbones that fly, crawl, squirm, and creep through your fields and gardens, doing good work alongside you. This three-part webinar series is brought to you in partnership with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. We ar

Happy World Bee Day! Bees and other pollinators are essential to food security, biodiversity, and natural beauty (no bees = no flowers). But they are facing many challenges to their survival. Since 2018, the United Nations has observed May 20 as International Bee Day, hoping to raise awareness for the crisis of bee population collapse world wide. Approximately one-third of the food humans consume depends on pollination, with bees being responsible for pollinating about 75% of

Our Chainsaw Series starts tomorrow, on Zoom! Don't miss this awesome opportunity to get a little more comfortable with power tools. Conservation of wooded lands is rewarding, challenging work. For many women, the intimidating nature of the power tools behind much of the work (read: chainsaws) keeps them sidelined. Wisconsin Women in Conservation is teaming up with our friends at Marbleseed to address this confidence gap. Let’s get excited about managing our wooded acres! Joi

We are so excited for this gathering! Join us for an amazing opportunity to connect with other women landowners, growers, and conservation professionals around our shared interest in land stewardship. We'll learn from one another at an inspiring restoration property stewarded by host JCB Heffernan. This farm features a thriving Beaver Habitat! "I am excited to welcome WiWiC to the farm, because I believe in the value of beavers and want people to welcome them and not be afrai

Happy Earth Day! We're so very delighted to be in community with you - thank you for opening this blog! At Wisconsin Women in Conservation, we know you are busy with planting season and the multitude of family, work, world, and personal duties that women carry. So that's why we're JOYFULLY celebrating YOU this Earth Day in 2026, which has been declared by the United Nations the International Year of the Woman Farmer. The Year is intended to spotlight the essential roles wome

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you that have donated to our Sally Mead Hands Foundation Match Drive here at the end of 2025! Today is the final day. We are in the final hours. And we are SO SO SO close! We thought this inspiring photo of our 2024 field day out at Maiv Flower Farm might help to remind you of what the WiWiC Hive will share together in 2026. As of this morning, after a trip to the post office to look for checks, and a tally of our on-line donations,

Dr. Sarah Slaby grew up on a small farm with nine siblings near Arcadia. Her family managed two farms, and the kids - of course! - had daily chores. Before she was a teenager, she was driving tractors and raising calves, and even started her own business: Sarah's Quality Calves. Simultaneously, she was working for and learning from ground-breaking organic veterinarian and author Dr. Paul Dettloff. This idyllic childhood in the agricultural Driftless Region and mentorship by

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you that have donated to our Sally Mead Hands Foundation Match Drive here at the end of 2025! Look at this thermometer - we are right on top of our goal, now hovering over $8,000. To celebrate this beautiful, strong, hopeful, and fierce show of support for the WiWiC Hive, we've ordered a slew of new WiWiC stickers and we'll be sending them out in our thank you letters to EVERYONE who donates or has donated in December. We especially

Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of the WiWiC fam that have donated to our Sally Mead Hands Foundation Match Drive in the past 24 hours! We sent out an email last night (check your inbox if you haven't seen it) and we've had a tremendous response so far to extending the match. Now we're cooking. Let's keep going and meet our goal by the end of the year! Here's a slight but exciting update to the news we shared yesterday: Donate any amount by Dec. 31, and we'll send yo

It has been such a joy to celebrate Native American Heritage Month with you on our First Nations live webinar series. We started the series on November 6, with with Dr. Annie Jones, professor of Organization Development and Tribal Nations Specialist at University of Wisconsin, Department of Extension, and Jennifer Gauthier, director of the Sustainable Development Institute at College of Menominee Nation. We are grateful for their generosity in sharing their knowledge and exp

It's such a joy to celebrate Native American Heritage Month with you on our ever-popular First Nations live webinar series. We started the series last Thursday, November 6, with 150 people on the Zoom with Dr. Annie Jones, professor of Organization Development and Tribal Nations Specialist at University of Wisconsin, Department of Extension, and Jennifer Gauthier, director of the Sustainable Development Institute at College of Menominee Nation. We are grateful for their ge

It's Native American Heritage Month and our ever-popular First Nations webinar series starts TOMORROW, November 6! Every year, we have added additional dates to this series because it is so important, and so widely attended. Last year we expanded to two webinars, and this year, we've increased the length of the series to THREE sessions. Our focus will be learning about the Menominee Nation. Over 200 people are already signed up for the first webinar! Many thanks to Dr. Ann

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This year's series of Conservation Camp webinars focuses on NEXT STEPS. You are committed to conservation, but what do you do next? In...

This year's series of Conservation Camp webinars focuses on NEXT STEPS. You are committed to conservation, but what do you do next? In...

It's time for Summer Camp! Actually, we're extending camp beyond the summer this year because we have so many cool topics we've heard you...

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