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Alma event focuses on family farm future |
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1/31/02
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All proceeds from the event will go to Harvest of Hope Fund, Wisconsin’s faith-based rural crisis program that helps farm families in need. Congressman Kind will speak about the new federal farm bill. In addition, an open microphone will be provided so that people in the community can say what they think needs to happen to keep our families farming.
Wisconsin has lost twenty percent of its farms in the past 25 years
and, worse, over one third of our dairy farms in just the last seven years.
The impact is hard on Wisconsin's rural communities.
The Family Farm Stewardship Campaign believes that we can lift up our family farms, our farm families and our rural communities, if we come together to seek a solution. The flapjack feed is co-sponsored by four Alma area churches, local business and the Family Farm Stewardship Campaign. Contact the Alma Kwik-Trip (685-3879) for advance tickets.
Other sponsors of the event include: St. John’s Lutheran Church, St. Lawrence Catholic Church, St. Paul & St. Luke United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church of Alma, The Burlington Hotel, Organic Valley, Alma Kwik-Trip, Mondovi Implement Company, Arcadia Credit Union, Duvall & Clark, SC, Riverland Energy Cooperative, Mill Creek Builders, and The Family Farm Stewardship Campaign, directed by Wisconsin Farmers Union, Family Farm Defenders, The Lutheran Office for Public Policy in WI, the Churches Center for Land and People, Sierra Club – John Muir Chapter, WI Public Interest Research Group, Wisconsin Stewardship Network and coordinated by Wisconsin Citizen Action.
