Farm Aid

05/29/2026

with Wilco. Watch their performance of "Late Greats" live at Farm Aid 2005 in Tinley Park, Illinois.
https://youtu.be/Th8NpM6JTSw?si=j5vZt6OZ6Ihe-GZx

05/28/2026

Learn how to make a difference in our farm and food system! Check out 10 ways you can support family farm agriculture. https://farmaid.org/10ways

05/26/2026

Join us this Thursday for Breaking Bread, Farm Aid’s Lunch & Listen series. Farmers and service providers from North Carolina and Washington State will share how climate disasters affect mental health, what recovery looks like and why support is essential. Free and open to all.
Register now: https://www.farmaid.org/breakingbread-register

05/25/2026

TN Rep. Justin Jones is calling for the same grassroots energy that built Farm Aid in the first place. This moment in the country's history calls for organizing and for creative new ways to lift up farmers at a time when so much is working against them.

05/23/2026

Oregon farmer and activist Kendra Kimbirauskas sees the farm movement as part of something larger: the fight for democracy, for racial justice, for rural communities that can actually sustain themselves. These movements need each other, she says, and standing together is how family farms survive.

05/22/2026

Watch Staples perform "City in the Sky" at Farm Aid 2024 in Saratoga Springs, New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99oshymSbJc

Photo © Brian Bruner / Bruner Photo

05/21/2026

Farmers of color are often first to feel the pressures that eventually hit everyone. Shantell Bingham of the Food Justice Network on how limited access to capital and markets shows what happens to Black and brown farmers today is a signal for all American farmers tomorrow.

05/20/2026

Breaking Bread is Farm Aid’s Lunch and Listen series, featuring stories that uplift our shared history of food and farming, organizing and resistance. Join us next week for a conversation on farmer mental health in the wake of climate disasters. This conversation will feature farmers and service providers from North Carolina and Washington State sharing their experiences, challenges and why prioritizing mental health is vital.
This event is free. Register now! https://www.farmaid.org/breakingbread-register

05/19/2026

The hosts of Against the Grain: The Farm Aid Podcast recently joined the Nevermind the Music podcast for a conversation about artist advocacy, the challenges family farmers are facing and the one thing that connects us all: we all need to eat.
Listen now:

What motivates an artist to go beyond performative tweets and truly advocate for a cause they care about? This week, we are joined by Jessica Ilyse Kurn and...

05/18/2026

"We Don't Make Enough to Be Greedy" — Willie Booker

What sets family farmers apart from the corporate operations trying to squeeze them out is farmers sharing what they have, including knowledge. That willingness to help each other rather than just compete is a real strength.