Every time there’s a Farm Aid concert we talk about who’s going to perform and how you can donate money . . . and then we forget about it. But have you ever wondered how the funds are used?
Willie Nelson talked about that in an interview with “The New Yorker“. “When a small family farmer goes to borrow money for next year’s crop, the bankers won’t give him any unless he agrees to put fertilizer and pesticides on the crop.
“[It’s] so they’re guaranteed to get their money back. But they don’t realize it’s ruining the damn soil. A lot of small family farmers fought ’em, and stayed true, and raised food that they could eat, and their families could eat.”
Farm Aid funds also support the farm-to-market movement, and that’s good for the local economy. Instead of breakfast coming from fifteen hundred miles away, go to a farmer’s market and help your local grower.
“You’ll be helping a lot of people. I know how hard it is to make a living farming. But I know how gratifying it is, too . . . to plant seeds, and watch ’em grow.”
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