The Farm Aid festival raises money and awareness for our work for farmers and farm groups, and we love to highlight farmers at the festival as much as possible. We invite you to meet them, get to know them and appreciate their food and fiber!

Meet Your Cotton Farmers

All Farm Aid 2026 clothing is made from organic cotton, grown in Texas and produced in the USA. For us, merchandise is part of our core mission to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Plus, these shirts are delightfully soft and well made.

For the first time, you can meet these cotton farmers in person on Lake Plaza and learn about the soil to shirt journey.

Meet Your Soil Farmers

Did you know that we are making soil at Farm Aid 2026? As part of our Zero Waste efforts, we are composting this entire show and turning your trash into rich soil. This is thanks to Tidewater Compost and Drishti Compost, local partners who steward the composting process from this venue.

You can meet these soil farmers in the Compost Corner just inside the main gate. On your way, be sure to say HI and thanks to the Green Team volunteers, helping to sort waste at the waste stations!

Compost Your Scraps table at Farm Aid 2022. Photo © Alexandria Ward

Meet Your Food & Beer Farmers

The Farm Aid team has been working for months with the venue to bring you HOMEGROWN Concessions® — food that is carefully sourced from family farmers who receive a fair price. We focus on local farmers and non-GMO, organic and regenerative agricultural practices. Meet the brewers who grew the barley for our Farm Aid 2026 beer at the bar in the Front Plaza, and read on to learn more about our food sourcing!

Meet Your Flower and Decor Farmers

Our decor this year is sourced from Hickory Ridge Farm, Deer Run Farms, Motherhood in Blooms, End of Nowhere Flower Farm, Hidden Gem Farm and The Flower Farm at Young’s Mill.

Photo © Scott Streble