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AFT Farmcast Video: "Cooking Up Local"

Watch AFT’s Farmcast Video and listen to what it means to cook with locally grown, organic ingredients for Airlie’s Executive Chef Jeff Whitte.

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AFT Farmcast Video: Kids Learn to Farm and Get Healthy

In the Edible Schoolyard program at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, California, students learn how to grow, harvest and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Watch the Edible...

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AFT's April Farm Fresh News

Pigs Replace Pesticides, Could You Be a Farmer?, Farm Fresh Recipe and more. In this month's Farm Fresh News learn how farmers are reducing pesticides (with pigs!), follow a day in the life of a...

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AFT's March U.S. Farm Policy Update

Will the Farm Bill Get Passed?, Turning Up the Intensity on Climate Policy, Media Update and more U.S. Farm Policy Update is AFT's monthly electronic newsletter that tracks the progress of the 2008...

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AFT's May E-News

In this month's E-News: The Dirt on Transfer of Development Rights, Food Policy Councils and Breaking Farm Bill News. AFT's monthly E-news features the latest on farm and ranch land protection,...

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Farm Bill Headed for Floor Vote

In closed door meetings May 7th, Congress wrapped up farm bill negotiations and House and Senate floor votes are expected to take place this week in advance of the May 16th deadline. The bill includes...

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Help Spread the No Farms No Food Message

Go shopping with a message. With a gift of $35 or more, we’ll send you a No Farms No Food totebag! We’ll put your gift to work educating communities about ways to protect their local farmland and push...

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Check out AFT on YouTube!

Visit American Farmland Trust's YouTube channel and see all our latest videos on local foods, farmer and rancher perspectives, AFT's work and more.

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Visit us on Flickr

Check out American Farmland Trust's Flickr account. You can also join our No Farms No Food group. We've sent out millions of bumper stickers and thousands of totebags with the No Farms No Food message....

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Farm Bill Passes After Veto Override

On May 22nd Congress enacted the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008. After a Presidential veto, the House voted 316-108 and the Senate voted 82-13 to overwhelmingly override the veto. The 2008...

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AFT Announces 2008 Steward of the Land Winner

American Farmland Trust is proud to recognize Nash Huber of Nash’s Organic Produce as our 2008 Steward of the Land. The award recognizes Huber for his leadership in protecting agricultural land, local...

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Opponents of Climate Change Legislation Use Gimmicks to Temporarily Stop Debate

American Farmland Trust says our nation’s farmers and ranchers can play a major role in helping to address climate change. “Agriculture and forestry producers have the capacity to offset significant...

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AFT's June U.S. Farm Policy Update - What's Next for Farm and Food Policy

Farm Bill Wraps Up, AFT's Work on Farm Policy Continues. When American Farmland Trust started this farm bill journey in 2005, we set out to create a better, more cost-effective safety net for...

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AFT's June E-News

Gains in the Farm Bill, Organic Produce and Conservation, Sustainable Schoolyards and more. AFT's monthly E-news features the latest on farm and ranch land protection, environmentally responsible...

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Farm Bill Subsidy Reform: 20% Reduction in Direct Payments, 30% Reduction in...

AFT's Ralph Grossi and Ron Litterer from the National Corn Growers Association take a careful look at the benefits of the new Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program and how it provides a better...

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AFT Announces Campaign for Wisconsin's Farm & Forest Lands

AFT announces the start of the Campaign for Wisconsin’s Farm & Forest Lands initiative designed to complement the recommendations of the Working Lands Steering Committee convened by Secretary of...

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The Legality of Non-Seasonal Foods, A Prairie in the Heart of Farmland, AFT's...

Welcome to the June edition of Farm Fresh News. In this issue, see how wildlife and native prairie come together in the heart of farmland, discover a farm that grows its food kid-sized, check-out our...

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AFT's July E-News

AFT Welcomes a New President, Finding Ways to Mitigate the Environmental Impacts of Flooding, Farmland Protection Report, Virtual Local Foods Resources and more

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New ItemSchoolyards: A Haven of Green Benefits

AFT is co-sponsoring this summer's Sustainable Schoolyard exhibit at the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC. Come visit by October 13, 2008, it's free!

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Nancy Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm Named to American Farmland Trust Board

Nancy Hirshberg, Vice President for Natural Resources for yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm, has been unanimously elected to AFT's Board of Directors for a three-year term.

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