Due to a good chance of inclement weather tonight, we are going to reschedule the Klamath Falls
Agricultural Reclamation Act meeting for NEXT THURSDAY, JANUARY 28TH from 6-8pm at the Klamath Falls Library, 126 S. 3rd.
Please let us know if you are able to to join us next week so that we know who will be [...]
The 10th annual Extension Small Farms Conference will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The one-day conference will be held on the Corvallis campus of Oregon State University at the LaSells Stewart Center. The keynote speaker, author Mas Masumoto [Epitaph for a Peach, Four [...]
The New Year is starting with a bang! Friends of Family Farmers is on the road again.
This week begins with InFARMation (and Beer!) and its one year anniversary on Tuesday, January 12th. Anthony and Carol Boutard from Ayers Creek Organic Farm return to give us a bird’s eye view of the policy issues family farmers [...]
Coming off of a great round of meetings in December, we are happy to announce the final tour stops leading up to the Farmer Delegation in February of 2010.
On Wednesday, January 13th we will be in Canby at the Canby Adult Center, 1250 South Ivy Street from 6:00-8:00 pm.
Thursday, January 14th takes us into the [...]
Tangent oh Tangent! There could be a Shakespearean sonnet chronicling the beauty of Tangent’s 130-year old grange hall. It was a wonderful venue to kick off the December leg of our ARA tour. This meeting drew a varied, yet fine crew of farmers and ranchers who represented the dynamic potential that agriculture in the Central [...]
Today it was announced that Friends of Family Farmers (FoFF) was awarded a $6,000 “Taking Action to Change the System” grant from Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid. The money awarded is being used for FoFF’s Farmer Delegation, an event that will bring together farmers and ranchers from across the state to create the Agricultural Reclamation Act, a [...]
In response to the Agricultural Reclamation Act Community Meetings Tour that FoFF Staff, Megan Fehrman and FoFF Co-President, Michael Moss are embarking on, Oregon Farm Bureau Lobbyist Katie Fast circulated a “fact” sheet to Deschutes County Farm Bureau members. This was an attempt to discredit our work using fear mongering and scare tactics.
A reporter at [...]
There are many opportunities to catch up with Friends of Family Farmers this week..
We are starting on Sunday, when the Agricultural Reclamation Act tour travels to Tangent for a community meeting at the Western Star Grange from 6-8pm. From Tangent, we head out to the Gorge on Monday for a meeting in Hood River [...]
Organizing across a state as varied geographically and politically as Oregon is difficult under the most ideal conditions. Work on organizing with ranchers and farmers and you’ve taken on a juggernaut of individualistic and strong- minded positions. But that’s exactly what makes this effort so exciting and wonderful. As a dairy farmer, I too fall [...]
We are officially half way through the Agricultural Reclamation Act Tour. A big thanks goes out to all the communities that have hosted us so far. You can read more about our adventures on the road at the blog we are keeping to chronicle this journey.
Next week, we head out again- but to [...]
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