At food-filled Farm Aid, music isn't only focus

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Unite to help small farmers family farm aid than musician. This is also a family dinner.
Concert - a key component of farm aid Saratoga springs on Saturday - what is happening in this year is the food, it is through the farm aid to local preferences. This is six years ago began to create a new market for farmers.
Suppliers, including local food service outlets, as well as the national brands such as Chipotle Amy's organic, must meet the standards of farm aid purchasing ingredients in their food, organic flour in panini free-range, no antibiotics pigs on the barbecue.
Even if the marshmallow family farm, from maple syrup in the catskills.
"Farm aid mission is a peasant family, a family of farmers economic opportunities, we are a very big priorities," Glenn yoder said, deputy director of the farm aid. "We also support the good farming methods, these practices and good farmers, therefore, our domestic standards accord with ecological standard of the family farm, is derived from food, it returns a fair price to farmers."
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Willie nelson, Neil young, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp lead a star-studded squad, this year, as jack Johnson, carter, CARLENE toad wet sprocket and ten other artists.

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The annual concert is nelson founded in 1985, farm aid groups and cause as the President's chief cash cow. Beneficiaries are always prominent feature of the organization's efforts throughout the year, with the domestic village to provide the concert audience, in order to meet the local farmers to learn farming skills, farm aid set strict standard suppliers the opportunity to eat food.
"We talk about save the family farmers, but the fact is that this is a family of farmers, who will save us," nelson said, before a media event gates open at noon on Saturday.
Matthews to scream activist, wearing resistance to hydraulic fracturing media event, this also is many farmers, suppliers and volunteer's T-shirt. "Don't frack our farmland," said Matthew, to loud applause. From New York and Pennsylvania some resistance to hydraulic fracturing of mass incidents, called on New York's governor Cuomo (Andrew Cuomo) continue to hold the shale gas development began in 2008 and have a booth.
On Saturday night, Pete seeger, modify the line of "this land is your land", declared that "New York was no frack."
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This year the village center for the performing arts was established in Saratoga national park surrounding the broad lawn. Action would even 10 hours before the concert.
The village offers a wide range of activities, help people in touch their farmers. There is a potato stamps art project seminar all day cream, bacon, cheese, lemon vinegar and camel wool bracelet; And demonstration of how to grow mushrooms log in their own backyard.
Hartford, New York, Joshua cummings bite into a lively grilled sausages, because he left the manufacturer's tent. "I want to know where my food comes from, and went into it," he said, to join the farm fresh food taste better.
Bags, restaurant owners Saratoga springs esperanto, his farm aid booth, in order to meet the requirements of the organization, all the organic and the humanized raise food had to modify his menu.
"They have very strict standards, let me check my menus and source," small said. He makes use of organic chicken and farm to flour in his infantry, he the composition of the cost increase two or three times, he said.
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"I won't change my restaurant menu items, however, because many of my clients can't afford a higher price," small said. "But, I will add more local procurement projects on board."
Farm aid organizations since 1985 have raised more than $4.3 million, to support the plan, to help small family farms, expand the good food movement, promote locally grown food. Made a farm aid grants in the past 28 years more than $2.5 million in the northeast, according to the organization.

Roger allison said, who started a quilt family farms and farm aid grants in Colombia 20 years ago, the state of Missouri, farm aid has always been the lifeline of a peasant family, raise pigs in his organization of a natural way, without limit, without antibiotics.

"Thank god Willie nelson and agricultural assistance," said allison at Saratoga driving 23 hours, to his truck salty meats. "It really to instill hope in independent family farms across the us. We love Willie, Willie to help us."