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FARM AID 30
SEPTEMBER 19, 2015
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

"Farm Aid 30â€”Farm Aidâ€™s 30th anniversaryâ€”was held at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, in Chicago, Illinois, on September 19. A crowd of more than 27,000 enjoyed performances by Farm Aid Board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds. Additional artists included Imagine Dragons, Jack Johnson, Kacey Musgraves, Mavis Staples, Old Crow Medicine Show, Jamey Johnson, Holly Williams, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Insects vs Robots, Ian Mellencamp, and the Blackwood Quartet.

Farm Aid served local, organic, family farm food throughout the venue with Farm Aidâ€™s HOMEGROWN ConcessionsÂ®. The HOMEGROWN Youthmarket, staffed by local youth from Chicagoâ€™s High School for Agricultural Sciences, Windy City and Growing Power, sold local produce from family farmers to concertgoers. In Farm Aidâ€™s HOMEGROWN Village, farm and food groups engaged concertgoers in hands-on interactive activities about family farmers, soil, water, food production, and renewable energy. On the FarmYard Stage, agricultural journalist Alan Guebert hosted conversations with farmers, activists and artists. In the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent, concertgoers learned how to forage for urban edibles, make butter and cheese, and more.

Farm Aid hosted a number of pre-concert events and activities in Chicago to bring farmers together, engage the public and invite the media to highlight issues of concern to family farmers and eaters, including Strength from our Roots, a gathering of 200 farmers, activists, farm advocates and civic leaders from across the country to engage in inspired storytelling, intergenerational exchange, meaningful reflection and strategic analysis; Film2FarmAid, our first film festival; and an urban farm tour to highlight how community and rooftop gardens, public orchards and commercial farms nourish Chicago.

Before the concert, Farm Aid hosted a landmark gathering of farm leaders from across the country and civil rights leaders to learn about the legacy of civil rights organizing, Black land loss, and power-building in the Southeast. The galvanizing event was an opportunity to inspire new thinking about racial justice in food and agriculture, the power of community organizing and the need for the farmer voice to speak out and define a values-based practice for how we produce food and support farmers in the future."

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