Family Farms Mean Business Rally and Day of Events in Salem

Tuesday, April 4, 2017
9:30 AM PDT - 4:00 PM PDT

On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, Friends of Family Farmers will be holding our fourth biennial 'Family Farms Mean Business' Rally and Day of Events at the State Capitol in Salem!

Join us in Salem for a day of education, action and fun! The Family Farms Mean Business event will include educational farm and food policy workshops, a mid-day Rally on the Capitol steps, an indoor 'farmers market' to promote the positive impact of direct marketing and small farms, meetings with Legislators, and more. 

In 2015, more than 150 farmers, ranchers and local food/family farm supporters from every corner of the state came to the State Capitol for educational workshops covering the top farm and food priorities in Salem, to educate policy makers, and to Rally on the Capitol steps at mid-day in support of good policies that support small and mid-sized family farms, healthy local food systems and sustainable agriculture.

We hope to make the 2017 event even bigger and will be talking about issues like:

1) increasing support for new and beginning farmers
2) addressing economic risks to farmers from poorly regulated genetically engineered crops
3) addressing problems associated with factory farms
4) stopping proposed funding cuts to Farm-to-School 

For those attending the morning policy workshops, we will provide a continental breakfast and lunch, and will be setting up meetings with State Legislators. As a result, we are asking folks to RSVP in advance if coming all or most of the day to help us with planning:

Morning policy workshops begin at 9:30 am - Please RSVP

Rally on the Capitol Steps 12:30 - 1 pm - Come one Come all!

Afternoon meetings with your Legislators - Please RSVP