Join us for a special series of The Farm Report in collaboration with Heritage Radio Network that's all about The Farm Bill. Tune in to hear from farmers, policymakers, organizers, and food advocates about all the ways the farm bill directly impacts our lives - whether we realize it or not. We’ll break down farm policy and talk to young farmers about what hangs in the balance for them as another Farm Bill gets made. Join our coalition to shift power and change policy for the next generation of growers and land stewards. The future of good food depends on it. The Farm Report is Powered by Simpl ..read more

This is the third episode of our 2023 Farm Bill series, digging into the farm policy that will affect the next generation of farmers and ranchers. We’ve been asking how 1,000 pages of federal policy can provide tangible benefits and support to beginning and BIPOC farmers, our communities, and the environment. And in this episode, we're joined by Mario Holguin and Julieta Saucedo of La Semilla Food Center, and Ana Moran, Water Organizer at the National Young Farmers Coalition.  La Semilla Food Center, based in Anthony, New Mexico, has a mission “to foster a healthy, self-reliant, fair, and ..read more

This is the second episode of a six-part series focused on the one thing everyone in our network – from farmers to policymakers, organizers to corporate partners – is laser-focused on right now: the 2023 Farm Bill. In this episode, we're joined by Dãnia Davy, Director of Land Retention and Advocacy for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, and Alita Kelly, Land Organizing Director at the National Young Farmers Coalition. Throughout our conversation we’ll explore some of the ways that the 2023 Farm Bill can directly address the land access crisis happening right now in the US. We end our epi ..read more

In this episode of the Organizing Podcast Series we hear an interview with language justice advocates, Millo and Bruje of Cooperativa Brújulas, about expanding our perspectives and diving in to global solidarity in our work. We also hear from Co-Executive Director of Young Farmers, Martin Lemos, and California Director, Eli Tizcareño about each of their work. This episode is primarily in Spanish, with an additional contribution in English from U.S. Representative Kim Schrier of WA-08 ..read more

Marla Larrave, Political Education Director at HEAL Food Alliance, joins us to talk about HEAL’s School of Political Leadership (SoPL) and how to turn your big dreams into tangible plans for actionable change. Then we hear from Congressional guests Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01). Our episode closes with a conversation between Young Farmers Grassroots Manager Faith Shaeffer and Land Campaign Director Holly Rippon-Butler about how the Coalition’s Land Campaign is built around the stories of young farmers across the country and how your voices can c ..read more

Barbara James Norman, a blueberry farmer and lifelong advocate for Midwestern farmers of color, talks with Young Farmers Grassroots Manager Faith Shaeffer about her decades of organizing her community in Covert, Michigan and the greater Midwest. Barbara discusses her work fighting for access to USDA programs for farmers of color and facilitating intergenerational community building, using her own farm as a hub for building connections between farmers and the resources available to them. She tells the story of how she went from being physically locked out of access to USDA offices near her, to ..read more

Gerardo Reyes Chávez from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), and Tiffany Goetzinger from the Fair Food Program join us to talk about their three decade campaign fighting for worker protections for farm workers on tomato farms in Florida and how they brought some of the nation’s largest food companies to heel on sourcing only from farms with more ethical labor protections for their workers. Tiffany and Gerardo share how the CIW built accountability mechanisms into the design of their campaign and how they’ve centered the voices of the farm workers on the frontlines in their organizing fo ..read more

Yvonne Sandoval, Dare Arowe, and Abiodun Henderson met in a virtual breakout room at the 2020 Young Farmers’ National Leadership Convergence and connected over their experiences as Black and Indigenous women. Wanting to dive deeper into questions about cross-racial solidarity within BIPOC communities, they continued their conversations after Convergence and decided to plan and host a week of gathering, healing, and prayer space for other Black and Brown Indigenous women like them. Faith talks with Dare, Abi, and Yvonne about how they came together, how their year of planning has been so far, a ..read more

This is the first episode of a new six-part series focused on the one thing everyone in our network – from farmers to policymakers, organizers to corporate partners – seems to be laser focused on right now: the 2023 Farm Bill. We're joined by Billy Hackett, Policy Specialist for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), for a high-level overview of the farm bill. We know... 1,000 pages of federal policy, how exciting, right?! But we’re here to convince you that this bill is the most important piece of legislation shaping the future of food in this country, and that it affects all ..read more

Access to affordable, quality farmland is the top challenge young farmers face, particularly BIPOC farmers, who today make up only 2% of farmland owners. Young Farmer's Land Campaign Director Holly Rippon-Butler talks with New York Times reporter Elizabeth Dunn about her recent article, “How ‘Fairy Tale’ Farms Are Ruining Hudson Valley Agriculture,” about the land access crisis and how the National Young Farmers Coalition is working to transition one million acres of farmland to the next generation of farmers. The article, “How ‘Fairy Tale’ Farms Are Ruining Hudson Valley Agriculture,” illustr ..read more