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Farm Aid
2005
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Farm Aid 2005
Farm Aid is a non-profit
organization working to ensure a safe, fresh and healthy
food supply by keeping family farmers on their land.
Farm Aid is led by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil
Young and Dave Matthews. This year, Farm Aid
celebrates it's 20th anniversary.
Each year, Farm Aid holds
a fantastic concert, plus a ton of related events, to raise
money and awareness of the plight of the family farmer in
the US.
From the concert
proceeds, Farm Aid awards grants to organizations that
support family farming and they develop and fund programs to
develop longer term solutions to the family farm crisis.
(And this week, through
their Family Farm Disaster Fund, Farm Aid helped, and will
continue to help, farm families and communities devastated
by Hurricane Katrina by donating massive amounts of food and
funds for emergency relief).
Why is
this important?
Agriculture has become
industrialized and multi-national. National farm
policy sets market prices according to the interests of
large, multi-national corporations. Trade agreements
create unfair and unstable markets.
As a result, family farms
are under intense economic pressure and are (and have been)
closing at alarming rates.
But here's the catch.
Family farmers care for the soil and the water in a way that
corporate factory farms can't. Family farmers use
farming practices (like organic practices) that do not
destroy our natural resources. Family farmers produce
a huge diversity of crops and livestock. Family
farmers contribute to local economies and are a stabilizing
influence in many communities.
Supporting family farmers
is supporting a fresh, diverse, healthy and local food
supply.
Concert
plus events
All of us here in
Chicagoland luck out this year because the Farm Aid 2005
concert will be held on Sunday, September 18 at Tweeter
Center (near I80 and Harlem) in Tinley Park, IL.
As
they do each year, Willie and crew have a line up of great
talent, including Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Buddy Guy,
Kate Voegele and many more. Go to
www.farmaid.org for
details on performing artists, times and driving directions.
Here's Willie Nelson and
Rodney Scaman of Goodness Greeness at the press conference
announcing the Farm Aid 2005 concert and events.
In addition to the
concert, Farm Aid has organized an incredible list of events
in and around Chicago, in celebration of their 20th
anniversary.
These events include:
Local
restaurants with menu items "Fresh from the
Family Farm"
Sept. 12: A
night at the movies to benefit Farm Aid
Sept. 13-15:
Farm Aid at local farmer's markets
Sept. 14-16:
Farm Aid Food and Farm caravan from
Champaign to Chicago
Sept. 17:
Tractor Parade
You can find more details
about each of these events at
www.farmaid.org .
Goodness Greeness supports Farm Aid
Goodness Greeness is an
active supporter of Farm Aid and of family farms. This
year, we are providing the refrigerated truck to transport
farm-fresh food along the caravan route to the concert.
You can get more details
about the Farm Aid Food and Farm Caravan from Champaign to
Chicago from our website (download a
PDF brochure).
Join us along the caravan
route and at the concert in support of Farm Aid and family
farmers.
Contact
us
You can find
a rich variety of
other organic
fruits and vegetables, many grown by local and family
farmers, from Goodness Greeness at your local market.
Email us
at
newsletter@goodnessgreeness.com if you can't find them and we'll help you
locate them.
Past
issues online
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been reading this weekly newsletter for awhile, there is a
lot of information provided on organic fruits and vegetables, their
nutritional qualities, availability, shopping and
preparation tips, as well as some recipes.
You can now access most of
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Click on the Newsletter link at the top of any page on the
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