Farm Aid Blog Post #2
Farmers’ Almanac TV is on location, shooting video at the Farm Aid concert in New Jersey. Here is the second post from the event.
The excitement is unbelievable. There are farmers here from all over the country. It’s a sold-out concert. I can’t possibly describe what it’s like to be here and listen to the standing ovations, applause and the enthusiasm for the artists and their messages.
Here are some quotes from the press conference - and interviews.
“We started out to save the family farm. Now it looks like the family farm will save us.”
“Family farms are the solution.”
“If you want a better world, it starts with you.”
“My daughter didn’t like her college food. She wouldn’t eat. So I went to the college and started Food for Thought. Farmers around the college started selling homegrown food to the school and the college started cooking it differently. They are now in their fourth year.”
“We need smart people to use their understanding of economics, capitalism, advertising to restore good food in this country.”
“Let’s enable children to learn to eat good food and put new blood into farming. Let them take the good healthy food that they learn how to plant at a young age and then become the future farmers.”
Carolyn Mugar
“Farm Aid is an activist charity. It’s an extraordinary feat that four artists have stayed together over 21 years for this cause.”
More to come.
By Renee Bishop, executive producer for Farmers’ Almanac TV show on public television.
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