Organization
Farm Aid
The family-farm advocacy nonprofit founded in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp in response to the 1980s farm crisis. Forty years later: still running the annual Farm Aid benefit concert, operating a 1-800 hotline for farmers in crisis, and granting millions to grassroots farm-advocacy groups nationally. One of the longest-running mission-aligned cultural institutions in American agriculture.
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What they do
Farm Aid was founded in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp after the farm crisis of the early ’80s drove tens of thousands of family farms into foreclosure. The annual Farm Aid benefit concert has run for 40 consecutive years; revenue funds the organization’s three operational programs: the 1-800-FARM-AID hotline (financial, legal, and emotional support for farmers in crisis), grantmaking to grassroots farm-advocacy organizations nationally, and the Farm Aid Resource Network that connects farmers to direct help.
Why it’s listed
Most “[[mission-district-sf|mission]]-driven” institutions in agriculture either fold within a decade or drift toward the same agri-corporate consolidation they were founded to fight. Farm Aid is now in its fifth decade with the founding artists still personally involved, the hotline still answered, the grants still moving — the institutional longevity is itself the achievement. [[directory|The directory]] cares because the family-farm base is the substrate every farm listing depends on, and Farm Aid is the cultural institution holding that ground in the popular imagination.
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- Instance of: [[family-farm]]
- Shares approach with: [[american-farmland-trust]] · [[civil-eats]]
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A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[greater-boston]] in [[directory|the directory]].
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