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Want to Help Your Local Food System Thrive? Do This.

June 4, 2019 | Katherine Paul

Organic Consumers Association

You depend on your local farmers for the healthy food you buy at your community’s natural food store and farmers’ market.

Unfortunately, many small family farms struggle to succeed financially. That’s because farm policies favor big farms and multinational agribusiness corporations, not your local farmers.

It’s time to change that. And the best way to do it is to unite farmers from all over the country around efforts to rewrite U.S. food and farming policies.

Can you reach out to your local farmers and ask them to join a national coalition of Farmers & Ranchers for a Green New Deal?

Politics aside, the Green New Deal offers an unprecedented opportunity for large-scale reform of U.S. food and farming policies.

That’s why we’re working with our sister organization, Regeneration International, to build a coalition of farmers and ranchers who will work together to ensure that the Green New Deal includes policies that help them succeed.

For the first time ever, U.S. presidential candidates are talking about the need to help family farmers succeed—instead of supporting policies that make multinational agribusiness corporations rich, and force small farmers out of business.

But federal lawmakers need to hear from organic regenerative farmers, in large numbers, about what they need.

Can you reach out to your farmers and invite them to join this important national coalition? Click here for more information and downloadable materials. Or fill out this form and we’ll mail materials to you.