 Hi, I'm Sandra Runner, I'm the Farming Community Program Director at Center for Rural Affairs here in Nebraska. And I'm in Nebraska today visiting with Sarah. Center for Rural Affairs is about a 45-year-old nonprofit organization located in Lyons, Nebraska. And we work on issues like farm policy, small business development, and on farming community. We do direct service work in communities across Nebraska. And one of the audiences that we've become interested in in recent years and have done a lot of work around are women, landowners, and farmers. And in some of our early work, we discovered that resources that are available to other farmers and landowners are not necessarily reaching women as an audience. We also found that women learn better in a peer environment, where it's all women in a learning circle, where they're learning from one another. And women are a lot better long-term planners and are very interested in conservation. I came on board about five years ago, and one of our first projects where I worked with women farmers is a learning circle project where we worked with women farmers about techniques and tools for farming in a changing climate. The learning circle model worked really well there because many of the women did know each other in the particular area in eastern Nebraska where we were working, but never really had an opportunity to share best practices with one another or get on one another's farm because they're so busy farming and raising their families. So that was a really unique project in that many of the learning circle participants were from the same area and knew one another. We did, you know, get folks to join us from other parts of the state as they saw it advertised in the interest of them. But we talked about topics from how to access conservation programs to cover crops to how to use hand tools, season extension, post-harvest handling among a lot of other topics that came up kind of organically within the circle. And then that led us to another project as we talked more and more about conservation practices and implementing them on farms to sort of tie our work together with not only women landowners but beginning women farmers to match them up. We found that many women non-operator landowners were also interested in conservation practices and beekeeping. And we're willing to help another beginning farmer out, help a beginning woman farmer out by allowing them to place their hives on their property. And so we formed a learning circle around that as well here in Nebraska teaching practices and talking overall about the different aspects of beekeeping and the business of beekeeping but also connecting women landowners and women beginning farmers with one another to make those matches through an application process and finding a fit for women beekeepers to place their hives on women landowners land. Working at Center for Rural Affairs has allowed me to create programming around food system and conservation practices and growing practices and working with audiences that I feel like we are truly able to make a difference. So I get to do that in a variety of ways in the work that we do at the Center.