Edited to add:

Thank you to The Huffington Post for featuring this coloring book. We're so pleased with the response this has received!

Let's keep challenging stereotypes and closing that gender gap, together!

How One Woman Is Helping Inspire A Generation Of Girls To Close The Gender Gap In Farming

How it started:

This past summer, I received an email from a woman who had stumbled on to the Female Farmer Project website:

"I spent the weekend visiting friends who live in rural Minnesota. Though they aren't farming, they are surrounded by farms and live on a farmstead. I was reading to their 5 year old girl and 3 year old boy and a book mentioned "the farmer's wife" but I instead just called her "the farmer" because, duh. And the little girl immediately piped up and said "I thought only boys were farmers". So I told them that girls can be farmers too and lots of girls are farmers."

I have to be honest, that email kept me up all night. By morning I had hatched a plan. I wanted to find a way to show girls that they too could be farmers, but in a fun interactive way. A way that they get to decide what the farmer looks like; is she white, black? Old, young? I could provide the outline, they provide the creativity.

So I reached out to the man who encouraged me many years ago to pursue the documentation of women in agriculture, artist Joe Lee Davidson. I asked him to lend his beautiful talent.

Below you'll see Joe Lee's work in progress. We are making one of these available for a free download to gauge your interest level in the project going forward.

The form to fill in for the coloring sheet link is below.

To receive the link for the coloring page download, please fill in this form.

You’ll immediately receive an email to confirm your subscription, followed by an email with the download link to the 'Girls Can Be A Farmer Too' coloring page. If you don't receive it right away - check your junk mail folder.

You will also be added to our coloring book update mailing list. We want you to be the first to know if we move ahead with a coloring book. You can unsubscribe at any time, of course. But we do hope you'll stick around for the great things coming in 2017.

This archived portion of this post references the now closed drawing and coloring contest. Thank you.

Here's the fun news! There will be two opportunities to win the new Farmer Barbie.

Why Barbie? Barbie has not historically represented all women -- in race, body type, ability, etc. Farmer Barbie is by no means what every female farmer looks like. So while we're applauding Barbie for breaking out of the mold occupationally, we're countering Female Farmer Barbie with images of REAL female farmers, as captured by Audra, drawn by Joe Lee and colored by YOU.

Here's how you can win one of THREE Female Farmer Barbies!

THIS ONE IS NOW CLOSED, WINNER ANNOUNCED - A Drawing!
Step 1) Fill out the form below

Step 2) Download the coloring sheet

Step 3) Everyone who downloads the coloring sheet will go into a drawing. The drawing for one Female Farmer Barbie will take place on Friday the 23rd of December at 5pm PST. US only please

THIS ONE IS NOW CLOSED, WINNERS ANNOUNCED SHORTLY -- We are also hosting a coloring contest - for kids and adults!

Step 1) Fill out the form below

Step 2) Download the coloring sheet

Step 3) Color it

Step 4) Post a picture or a scan of your completed coloring sheet on Facebook in a public post with the hashtag #GirlsCanBeFarmersToo - please let us know if it's for the adult or child/age group.

We'll search the hashtag and share your pictures with the community and ask our artist, Joe Lee to judge one child (ages 0-16) and one adult (ages 17+) as the winners of the Farmer Barbie.

Entries in by January 4, 2017. Winners of two more Female Farmer Barbies will be announced shortly after. US only please

note: if the post is not public, I will not be able to see it to include your entry. Alternatively, you can email the picture or scan of your entry to femmefarmtotable {at} gmail.com

GIRLS CAN BE FARMERS TOO

How One Woman Is Helping Inspire A Generation Of Girls To Close The Gender Gap In Farming

This archived portion of this post references the now closed drawing and coloring contest. Thank you.

Here's the fun news! There will be two opportunities to win the new Farmer Barbie.

Here's how you can win one of THREE Female Farmer Barbies!