The most powerful tool we have to protect farmland is our fork.
ADAM DANFORTH
James Beard and IACP Award-Winning Author
"It’s no coincidence that the best meat comes from animals that live out long lives full of natural activity while thriving on nutritious food. Farmers are paramount — they provide the positive environment for livestock and cultivate the nourishing nature around them. Supporting our farmers, through markets, education, and policy work, is needed more than ever. Farming is a lifelong career, and the next generation needs to be cultivated now."
When you shop at your local farmers market, you help family farmers thrive. What you put on your fork matters.
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Minazzoli Farms
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Wilkesboro, NCRunning Creek Farm
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Killingworth, CTMick Klug Farms
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Lexington Park, MDAlstede Farms
Chester, NJ
Fresh food is better food.
I want farmers to thrive so that people like Farmer Andy from the Shore Farmers Market & Craft Fair in Somers Point, NJ can continue to provide us with his herbicide and p...
I want Family Farmers to thrive because we need sources of healthy grown vegetables at an affordable price. We need places for native and honey bees. We need a say in what con...
They are the source of our food system.
I like knowing where my food comes from. I like knowing that the poultry I buy was raised humanely. I like being able to talk to the farmer who actually grew my food. If I hav...
My family thrives off of fresh, local food and our farm families thrive off our support. Everybody wins!...
I think its important to support local businesses, I love the community that this farmers market brings to my home town & everything ive ever bought there has been absolut...
I want family farmers to thrive because we are the teachers of farming to all of our customers who want to know where their food is coming from...
When family farmers thrive we thrive! Farmers provide our families with the nutritious and delicious food that we eat, helping us be healthier, happier people!...
Our Muscatine Farmers Market is helping our neighbors! Persons who shop are eating healthy foods. As well as supporting ones that do craft items, feed our dogs nutritious snac...
The local farms and farmers are the lifeblood of a community. They are our source of nourishment and existence. A community without farms will cease to exist ....
I want family farmers to thrive because I come from a family with farmers. It's important to support local growers and get to know your community....
It makes sense, it’s about education, community Love & Joy!
I want family farmers to thrive so that I can support my area's local economy, keep farmland in production and free from development and sprawl, connect with my region's farmi...
The health of our soil and our bodies relies on them thriving! Family farms tend to use less chemicals and build healthy soils by growing sustainably. Healthier soils produce ...
I want family farms and farmers to survive and thrive. My business is based on beans, grains, and seeds. I sell them to encourage self-sufficient sprouting and healthy eating....
I run the Barnstead Farmers Market and in our town we have many farms, they all struggle for one reason or another, working a fulltime job to support their passion, regulation...
I like knowing where my food comes from. I like knowing that the poultry I buy was raised humanely. I like being able to talk to the farmer who actually grew my food. If I hav...
We are a family farm, second generation teaching the third.
I want my farmers market to thrive because it has helped revitalize an historic neighborhood in the heart of our city. The Oneida County Public Market, in historic Bagg's Squa...