Arizona has the highest proportion of female farmers – but conditions in this dry desert landscape aren’t easy,and rural isolation has created a tapestry of challengesBy 9am, it’s already 100F (38C). In the desert afternoons, or rain gathers on the horizon,teasing – and then it disappears. There is so much heaviness, so much waiting.
I pulled on to the ranch of Anastasia Rabin with Audra Mulkern, and a Washington-based photographer and founder of the Female Farmer Project. We were on assignment for a memoir and chasing a statistic: according to the most recent US census,Arizona is the state with the highest proportion of female farm operators.
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Source: guardian.co.uk