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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsat food filled farm aid, music isn't the only focus
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_AND_FARM_FARM_AID?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-21-06-09-44SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Farm Aid is more than a family of musicians banding together to help the small farmer. It's also a family meal.
A key component of Farm Aid concerts - this year's is taking place Saturday in Saratoga Springs - is the food, which comes through Farm Aid's Homegrown Concessions. It was started six years ago to create new markets for family farmers.
Vendors, which include local food-service outlets, as well as national brands such as Chipotle and Amy's Organic, must meet Farm Aid's criteria for sourcing the ingredients in their food, from organic flour in the panini to free-ranging, antibiotic-free hogs on the barbecue grill.
Even the cotton candy has a family farm origin, made from maple syrup produced in the Catskills.
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Sep 2013
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)1. farm aid
Mopar151
(9,992 posts)2. Maple cotton candy.....
Yum!
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)3. Kicking in support of family farms!
Willie Nelson is a hero for creating and guiding this. As the article says, FarmAid has raised over $430 million to support small farms.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)4. Did you know you can watch the FarmAid concert online?
webcast today at 5:00 Eastern time
http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.2723595/k.EE67/Family_Farmers_Good_Food_A_Better_America.htm
The lineup:
Willie Nelson
Neil Young
John Mellencamp
Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds
Jack Johnson
Amos Lee
Jamey Johnson
Kacey Musgraves
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Sasha Dobson
Carlene Carter
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Bahamas
Pegi Young & The Survivors
Jesse Lenat
Insects vs Robots
The Blackwood Quartet