Quote:In this network, Bass has traded both technical and emotional knowledge.

Through the years, she has noticed a common thread in many of the stories shared by women in this group: grief.
“Some folks have lost partners, spouses, some folks have lost parents or gone through some other major life change to get to this point of being single woman landowners. Not that we’re all single, but some of us definitely are,” Bass said.

She said that programs like Women and Our Woods bring a sense of community to her land stewardship.