Kara Krapfl puts on boots in front of her mother’s Iowa City home on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The house, owned by Sharon Dooley since 1992, was Kara Krapfl’s childhood home. With her passion for nature and hopes of spending more time with her family, Kara Krapfl started Lovely Bunches, her flower business in Dooley’s backyard in 2020. Kara Krapfl is part of a larger movement of women working in leadership on farms. About 50,000 women are leaders, partners, and decision-makers across 86,000 farms in Iowa, as of March 2021.

