HOMEGROWN Chili

Farm Aid's Going to the Super Bowl!

"Farm Aid knows family farmers. Our mission is to make sure you do, too. Farm Aid is introducing football fans to family farmers by serving HOMEGROWN Chili at the Super Bowl. It's good food from family farms, including some from right here in Indiana." — Farm Aid co-founder John Mellencamp.

Learn about the farmers that make our HOMEGROWN Chili and get the recipe to keep the fans in your home happy!

Occupy the Food System

Ask Farm Aid

Bill D. asks:

I saw Willie's "Occupy the Food System" op-ed on The Huffington Post recently. It really got me thinking, and I'd love to hear more about how the occupy movement relates to farmers?

Ask Farm Aid has the answer!

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Just Label It!
Just Label It!

We have a right to know what's in our food — tell the FDA that we need mandatory labeling of all GE foods.

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Farm Aid Board Artists

Willie, Neil, John, and Dave want fair markets for farmers and ranchers. Do you?

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews come together every year to perform on the same stage for family farmers. Now they've come together to demand fair markets for farmers and ranchers.

You can join them by adding your name to take action in support of family farmers.

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Farmer Resource Network

The Farmer Resource Network

Connects family farmers with hundreds of organizations that have ideas for diversifying and strenghtening their farms.

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Ask Farm Aid

Ask farm aid

Occupy for Family Farmers

How does the Occupy Movement relate to family farmers? Ask Farm Aid has the answer.

Farmer Hero

Farmer hero

Jim Gerritsen

This month we spoke with an organic Maine farmer who traveled to New York City to attend The Farmers March as part of Occupy Wall Street. Read Jim's story.

For Farmers

1-800-FARM-AID

email: farmhelp@farmaid.org
and visit Farm Aid's
Farmer Resource Network.

If you are a farmer looking for advice, assistance, or just some resources for your farm, Farm Aid is here to help.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

http://www.willienelson.com/

For the truly multi-dimensional Willie Nelson—singer, songwriter, Gypsy jazz guitarist, producer, bandleader, family man, perennially touring musician, Hollywood actor, entrepreneur, rancher, golfer, proud Texan, leader of the Good Food Movement, and godfather of music’s Outlaw Country movement—it continues to be a hell of a ride. Shotgun Willie, whose 75th birthday was celebrated on April 30, 2008, has been making music over the course of eight distinct decades and has been a recording artist for more than five of those decades.

While he started his colorful career picking cotton at the age of three in his hometown of Abbott, Texas, Willie grew to become the creative genius behind historic recordings like "Crazy," "Hello Walls," “Red Headed Stranger” and “Stardust.” Willie’s catalog boasts more than 200 albums. He's earned every conceivable honor to be bestowed upon a person in his profession, including six GRAMMY wins, a President's Merit Award, a Grammy Legend Award and the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Willie’s latest projects, reflecting his boundless creativity and diverse talent, include a foray into fiction and a collaboration with jazz great Wynton Marsalis.

“A Tale Out of Luck,” co-authored with Mike Blakely, is a classic western tale, that brings to life characters and themes central to any great Wild West novel—Texas Rangers, cattle rustling, Indians warriors, women of ill repute, saloons, shootouts and more.“A Tale Out of Luck”is the back story for Willie’s false-front western town which he built outside of Austin, and named, “Luck.”

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis’s acclaimed collaboration Two Men with the Blues debuted in July at #20 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with first week sales of 21,650, marking a career-high for both of these legendary artists. Released July 8, 2008, by Blue Note Records, Two Men with the Blues has also been garnering rave reviews from critics across the musical spectrum. The Boston Globe called it “an unmitigated, ear-tickling success,” while Billboard remarked that the album’s “enviably assured vibe pretty much drips out of the speakers.”

Jazz at Lincoln Center has also just announced a return engagement to the site where the album was recorded live in January 2007. On February 9, 2009, Willie & Wynton will reunite, this time in JALC’s Rose Theater to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records.

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