Our Shared History: Beginning Days of Farm Aid
“We were lucky. We had Farm Aid to come together and celebrate…We had ways to build the love together.”
~ Mark Ritchie, Former Minnesota Secretary of State
The Farm Aid 30: Strength From Our Roots gathering occurred on September 17 & 18, 2015. The gathering’s first panel revisited the conditions sparked the first Farm Aid concert in the 1980s, what family farmers were experiencing and what it meant for Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young to join family farmers in their struggle.
Moderator: Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
Panel:
Carolyn Mugar, Farm Aid
Mark Ritchie, Former Minnesota Secretary of State
David Senter, American Agriculture Movement
Roger Allison, Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Paul Sobocinski, Land Stewardship Project
Helen Waller, National Save the Family Farm Coalition
Ralph Paige, Federation of Southern Cooperatives
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Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price host an annual festival to raise funds to support Farm Aid’s work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. For more than 35 years, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $78 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.
For more information about Farm Aid, visit: http://farmaid.org/youtube
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