Farm Aid 2009 happens today, October 4th.

Take a look at the pictures at flickr and check the Farm Aid website.

Farm Aid has been doing invaluable work for over two decades to help the family farmer, and to raise awareness about the corporate takeover of the land. Let’s support the organization in every way we can.

Welcome to the Community Markets Association of Williamson County. I’m Ross Hunter, Communications Director for CMAWC.

What matters to all living beings is getting food they can live on. In America we’re failing at this endeavor. The food in our stores is becoming less and less worth eating every day. The answer is to restore the family farmer, and to reconnect with local food.

We are in a silent crisis in America because our food supply chain is being poisoned, and will ultimately be destroyed. What’s causing this is the action of corporate practices that exist only to strip every last dollar out of farming until the land is dead. Then the buyers of food will eat whatever they are fed to survive.

This crisis needs to become louder. It needs to turn into the scream it really is. We are being killed by bad food, and the answer for each one of us lies within a few miles of where we live.

The future of America is family farms producing wholesome food we can raise our children on. There is no alternative. All that remains is to re-create the economics that can make this so.

Stay tuned.