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Farm Aid If you ask for it, they will carry it.

That’s the mantra to follow when seeking out family farm foods at grocery stores and restaurants. Tell the manager at your supermarket that you want to see more produce and meats from local farms sold at the store. Choose restaurants that use fresh ingredients from family farms. Let your voice be heard. Learn how here.

Take Action: Be an Active Food Shopper - Farm Aid
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Take Action: Be an Active Food Shopper
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Farm Aid Finding locally grown family farm foods is probably easier than you think.

Farmers markets are cropping up in towns, suburbs and cities from coast to coast. Restaurants and grocery stores are featuring locally grown foods more often. U-Pick programs let you pick your own fruits and veggies for a set price per bushel. Click here to find places that sell family farm foods near you.

Find Good Food - Farm Aid
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Find Family Farmed Food
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Rick
Rick at 9:14am July 7
I highly recommend Michael Pollans book, Omnivores Dilemma.
Rick
Rick at 5:49am July 8
Farmwars.info is a great page to look at.Also, Polyface Farms, and my hero,Joel Salatin.
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Farm Aid Thanks to the Good Food Movement, local produce is more accessible, but pasture-raised meats from family farms, can be harder to track down. The certifications to process and sell meat direct to consumers can be expensive, making it hard for some family farmers to sell their meat at local farmers markets.

Click here to learn more about what it takes to get more local meat on your dinner table.

Ask Hilde - Farm Aid
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July 3 at 10:50am
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Sheri
Sheri at 8:48pm July 6
What? Tell me where to go here in Southern California and I'll go. Local govt is only as strong as you let it be. Once they get to the big league, they don't care what we think anymore. Set these politicians straight before it's too late.
Cherie
Cherie at 6:32pm July 8
thats right! we must make a stand and do whats best for our family and community
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Farm Aid Even with laws designed to protect us from foodborne illness and unsafe foods, food scares are increasingly common. Many of these laws have been designed around the dominant industrial food system in our country. Instead, we need new laws that don't favor quantity, but instead promote quality food, grown on small family farms.

Learn what you can do to make sure your food and family farmers are protected.

Ask Hilde - Farm Aid
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July 2 at 8:03am
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David
David at 7:47am July 3
i want safe food now
Tom
Tom at 12:14pm July 3
I agree with Kristen. It's those megacorporations and their powerful lobbies that ruin everything for the small family farmers. The number of animals per factory farm is staggering. The movie "Fast Food Nation" gives us some idea of how factory slaughtering works. E-coli in beef comes about because the colon is often cut during the slaughtering process and the meat is infected with feces. If not cooked to the proper temperature, the feces you eat will make you sick.
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Farm Aid Summer reading time!

Click here to download Farm Aid's Farm to School 101 Toolkit to learn how you can help local family farmers provide fresh, quality fruits and vegetables for students to enjoy, leading to healthy farms and healthy minds!

Farm to School 101 Toolkit - Farm Aid
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June 30 at 1:16pm
George
George at 6:17pm June 30
Required reading!!!
Larissa
Larissa at 7:41pm June 30
very interesting, i really like this idea! my gears are turning!
Amanda Caudill

Amanda Caudill Another bill you should oppose, HR 2454, the "climate bill" or cap and trade. This will lay a horrendous amount of taxes on farms, especially ones trying to scrape by. If you read carefully, this bill is not about helping the planet, but taxing anything that creates carbon emissions, electricity, gasoline...the list is endless. This will put blue collared Americans in the poor house. MIT speculated the average household to have an excess of $3100 in taxes annually, not to mention the price of inflation because manufacturers will be taxed at a MUCH MUCH higher rate...

June 29 at 4:18pm · Report
Amanda
Amanda at 4:19pm June 29
This has also went through the house, it will be voted on in senate I believe the 7th of July. Please research.

www.opencongress.org
Frank Connelly

Frank Connelly farm aid now more than ever

June 26 at 6:59pm · Report
Amie Freling

Amie Freling No Farms = No Food.

June 25 at 1:25pm · Report
Jay Imerman

Jay Imerman I think it's high time that organizations with like-minded pursuits work together. The Weston A. Price Foundation, and their advocacy organization the Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund, have fought hard to support the small farmer in their struggle to survive being squeezed by big agribusiness and government agencies like the USDA and FDA, as well as state agencies. I suggest calling Sally Fallon and arranging to work together on campaigns and events.

June 25 at 8:19am · Report
Stephanie Powe Gonyea

Stephanie Powe Gonyea Call, write and email your Congressman and tell them to vote against HR 2749! This bill will destroy small farms, not to mention it's completely unconstitutional!!!

June 23 at 7:48pm · Report
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Amanda
Amanda at 4:07pm June 29
The guy that proposed this outlandish bill, his last name is Dingell..LOL...thanks for the update, I will be calling my reps to vote against this...
Jay
Jay at 12:19pm July 1
John Dingell? He's not in my district, but I'll have to give him a call!
Stephanie Powe Gonyea

Stephanie Powe Gonyea Call, write and email your Congressman and tell them to vote against HR 2749! This bill will destroy small farms, not to mention it's completely unconstitutional!!!

June 23 at 7:48pm · Report
Regina Ruggiero

Regina Ruggiero Take action now to help our dairy farmers

June 16 at 5:40pm · Report
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Farm Aid We're getting ready for our meeting next Thursday with Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack. We'll be bringing 7,000+ petitions that we've collected that call on the Secretary to step in and set a fair price for milk that reflects the increased cost of production our dairy farmers are facing.

If you haven't already signed our petition, please do so now!

Take action now to help dairy farmers. - Farm Aid
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June 12 at 1:37pm
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Rosamond
Rosamond at 7:54am June 20
Great graphic!
Jay
Jay at 8:22am June 25
The way I help dairy farmers is I buy my milk directly from them. It is pastured, Organic, and unprocessed. The farmer gets a fair price for the milk without middlemen, and I get healthy local product that tastes phenomenal. Check out the Weston A. Price Foundation on Facebook and the Web, for information on safety and source facts you should know.
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Farm Aid Day at Belkin Family Lookout Farm
Family fun that supports Farm Aid!
Belkin Family Lookout Farm and Farm Aid have teamed up to hold the inaugural “Farm Aid Day at Belkin Farm” on Saturday, June 20th. The day-long celebration will include childr...
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Time:10:00AM Saturday, June 20th
Location:Belkin Family Lookout Farm
June 11 at 8:07am
Pamela ClarkRademacher Nall

Pamela ClarkRademacher Nall In northwest Indiana you can go to Fair Oaks Farm in Demotte off of Highway 65.Milk cheese and icecream,too

June 11 at 7:17am · Report
Beth Brekke

Beth Brekke Thank you to Farm Aid for setting up the online petition to the Sec. of Ag. We dairy farmers are in desperate need. Please keep doing what you can.

June 9 at 6:15pm · Report
Amy Senter Oelberg

Amy Senter Oelberg My local family farm that I frequent just started caring Milk, to go along with it's plants and produce. The skim milk is so creamy it tastes like 2%/whole mix. Yummy! If more people would buy this quality product locally imagine where we would be in a few years. I advertise them by word of mouth telling anyone who will listen go and buy from Mt. Olympus Farms in Ruther Glen Virginia. My husband will bite into his tomatoes and say "You went to the farm again didn't you?". This amazing Farm is owned buy Mary and Ken West and voted Virginia's Small family Farm Of 2008!

June 9 at 12:31pm · Report
Mary
Mary at 3:23pm June 9
How would I locate a local farm that would sell milk? There ar e lots of farms here for produce. Milk and eggs would be awesome.
Amy
Amy at 7:15pm June 9
I would go to the closest one and ask for other farms in the area. Find one that crop shares too and that will be good start. The local Farmers market is a really good place to start come Friday/Sat AM. They will have ideas on food prep, where to get your hands on what locally , and all that yummy food too. So this could be your project to start ... Read Moreand pull you out of your funk. You'll feel better knowing your family is eating healthy and as you cut out Growth Hormones used in big chain food supplies. You will naturally start losing some weight from detoxicing that crud out. Aren't you happier all ready. Now go eat a melon!
Debby Bowles

Debby Bowles today's farmers don't stand a decent chance against the federal government. because of the federal government rules, etc it has deterred the number of farmers. when farmers are told what to grow or what to sell, then they cannot be decent hardworking farmers. there are less and less farmers. i grew up as a farm kid and through the years have watched farmers go out of business, sell their pastures only for them to become new homes. please remember your farmers in corropution of government control over the little guy.

June 1 at 7:06pm · Report
Sheri
Sheri at 8:42pm June 13
What is going on here? Why doesn't the govt make our own safe food supply a top priority? Are we supposed to become dependent on foreign countries for all our basic needs? I'd rather drive an old used car and have plenty of good food, knowing that our families and friends are working to keep America fed. What monster is making the rules here? Fire them all and vote in some farmers and factory workers!
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Dairy Rally for Fair Prices
Saturday May 30, 2009
Join us for a Dairy Rally for Fair Prices Volunteers and attendees needed! Manchester, Iowa Saturday, May 30 12 - 3PM at the Manchester Livestock Exchange This rally is being...
Host:Farm Aid
Time:12:00PM Saturday, May 30th
Location:Manchester Livestock Exchange
May 28 at 12:31pm
Barb

Barb http://www.rherald.com/News/2009/0514/Front_page/f04.html

May 21 at 7:22am · Report
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Farm Aid Dairy farmers are in crisis and are being paid less than half of what it costs to produce their milk!

Please join the 3600+ people that have already signed this petition urging Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack to help dairy farmers and preserve your access to safe, local milk.

http://tr.im/l8qL

Take action now to help dairy farmers. - Farm Aid
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May 20 at 11:59am
Lisa
Lisa at 12:49pm May 20
Very sad seeing how my grandfather was a dairy farmer.
Thetis
Thetis at 1:17pm May 22
Goats are better..
Rodney Washburn

Rodney Washburn Proud to be a part of something as important to our nations farmers and all our nations people. Home Grown, Grass Roots, America.

May 18 at 6:28am · Report
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Farm Aid Dairy farmers are in crisis and are being paid less than half of what it costs to produce their milk! Please sign this petition to help dairy farmers and preserve your access to safe, local milk.

Did you already sign it? Please spread the word here on Facebook and via email: http://tr.im/lkwg

Take action now to help dairy farmers. - Farm Aid
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May 14 at 6:57am
Ron Hayes

Ron Hayes Very sad and serious changes in America over the last 30 years:
a) family farms are declining in numbers.
b) small towns have died..no self contained business communities which supported the townspeople and surrounding farms...Mayberry is dead!

May 14 at 6:49am · Report
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Farm Aid Join the 2400+ people who have already told USDA Secretary Vilsack to help set a fair price for dairy farmers: http://tr.im/l8qL

Take action now to help dairy farmers. - Farm Aid
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May 12 at 10:53am
Barb

Barb As if their plight was not difficult enough: Farmer handcuffed, fingerprinted, photographed for a bounced check. According to the farmer, he never spoke with the sheriff quoted, and never swore at anyone.
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090508/NEWS02/905080358

May 11 at 6:25pm · Report
Bryan Gotham

Bryan Gotham Manchester Iowa Rally for Specter Casey Bill 889
Bryan Gotham Come join my new group. If you want ice cream in your future. http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=96298492754&ref=mf

May 9 at 5:54pm · Report
Dennis Malivuk

Dennis Malivuk Don't just commit to Farm Aid because of Willie's, Neil's , John's or Dave's involvement. Read about the organization and learn what Farm Aid is all about. You will soon find yourself wanting to be a part of this great organization and all the wonderful work they are doing.

May 9 at 4:46pm · Report
Maggi Plevka

Maggi Plevka Farm Aid is really a great organization, best of luck to the Dariy Farmers they deserive it.

May 9 at 11:57am · Report
Bethany

Bethany Farm Aid is a wonderful organization!!!

May 9 at 6:14am · Report