Gendering strategies for civic agriculture: The case of Blue Ridge Women in agriculture and the High Country Farm Tour

摘要

Highlights?Civic agriculture requires the empowerment of women farmers through gendered organizations, horizontal networks, and innovative strategies.?Community-based farm tours hold potential as a creative civic agricultural strategy and should be implemented by more communities.?The value of focus groups as participatory action research aimed to strengthen networks of women farmers is illustrated and affirmed.