Green Options » Food Routes http://greenoptions.com/tag/food-routes Posts tagged 'Food Routes' Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:30:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Farm Aid 2008 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/05/farm-aid-2008/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/05/farm-aid-2008/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:30:14 +0000 Stuart Stein http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/09/05/farm-aid-2008/ Farm Aid: 22 years of great music, supporting farmers, and strengthening America.

In case you’ve been in a cave for the last two decades, Farm Aid is:

The nonprofit organization, whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land, works with organizations to help family farmers thrive through programs that develop local food markets, training, youth education and food awareness initiatives.

Farm Aid promotes food from family farms, helps grow the good food movement and takes action to change the “system”. How? The most visible of the organization’s work is an annual daylong concert featuring some of the top names in music - headliners Willie Nelson, Mellencamp, Neil Young, and Dave Matthews.

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