Ruth Rabinowitz was born in Michigan, raised in Arizona, and has lived for over 30 years in the Bay Area of California. Ruth designed a farmhouse and is now living on her land in Southern Iowa. Ruth holds a BA in Art from University of California Santa Cruz, an Early Childhood Education Site Supervisor degree and PDC Permaculture Design Certificate. When Ruth was a young girl, her father, David, began purchasing farmland in the Midwest with an aim to pass these farms to his two daughters. Without being raised on a farm, aside from the urban one acre Arizona garden her family owned, Ruth stepped into the role as Farm Manager of the family land in Iowa and South Dakota in 2012. She learned the farm business and caring for farmland from soup to nuts primarily through studying the web, engaging with NRCS and FSA offices, and attending farm conferences and field days. Her art includes travel photography, portraiture, wheel and hand built ceramics, interior design and landscape design and installation. Her newest art form is wood farm signs, embellished with names of farm locations and carvings of the plants and animals that live on the farms.
Ruth is a part of the following organizations:
Women, Food and Agriculture Network
From Oxbow Farms:
We acknowledge that Oxbow Farms is located on Indigenous Lands of the Ochethi Sakowin, Sauk, Meskawaki, Kaw, Wahpeton, Yanktonai and recognize the Indigenous peoples who have lived and continue to live on these lands.
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Visit The EcoTheatre Lab's website at ecotheatrelab.com for links to Ruth's work and how to connect with her, the transcript for this episode, and more information about the podcast, production team, and The EcoTheatre Lab.
This podcast series is all about finding ways to talk about climate change with each other. The EcoTheatre Lab wants to also be in dialogue with our listeners! Please let us know your thoughts on this episode through this brief feedback form (tinyurl.com/artofclimatedialogue)!
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Thank you to our podcast funders:
Johnson Center for Land Stewardship Policy Emerging Leader Award and North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program Graduate Student Grant.*
This podcast is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number 2021-38640-34714 through the North Central Region SARE program under project number GNC22-345. USDA is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Thank you to our podcast production team:
Vivian M. Cook - Producer, Host, and Editor
Rosie Marcu-Rowe - Editor
Moselle Nita Singh - Cover Artist
Omar de Kok-Mercado - Musician
Charissa Menefee, Taylor Sklenar, and Mary Swander - Consultants
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