Marcy Kaptur, one of Ukraine’s best friends in Congress, has women and farming on her mind

Marcy Kaptur is planting Seeds of Hope this spring. The longest-serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 35 years in Congress, emerged from a March visit to the farm fields near Zhytomyr, a city of 266,000 people that is 140 kilometers southwest of Kyiv, with new zest over the potential of Ukraine’s women and its agricultural sector.