Though it is known best for its large benefit concerts, Farm Aid has so much more to offer America. For the past 24 years, they have worked to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farming families on their land.
Beyond raising money to help farmers, Farm Aid serves as an extensive resource network for farmers seeking to adopt more sustainable and profitable farming practices. This resource network in turn helps consumers who are increasingly demanding local, organic, sustainably-grown and humanely-raised food. Farm Aid knows that corporate farms are not able to provide these things, instead relying on production-boosting practices, chemicals and hormones.
Check out the Ask Hilde feature on their site. It’s a great example of how an organization can communicate with the general public in an effective manner. Each question addresses very complicated questions in a way that non-experts can understand.
