Renewing the Countryside joins Farm Aid 40
Renewing the Countryside will be a part of Farm Aid 40's HOMEGROWN Village for the 2025 event in Minneapolis on Saturday, Sept. 20
Great music, supporting farmers, and strengthening America since 1985
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on the land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001, and Margo Price joined in 2021. Farm Aid has raised more than $85 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture. Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America.
Farm Aid has traveled around the US, playing in a different city each year. For 2025, Farm Aid 40 will be in Minneapolis, MN at Huntington Bank Stadium. While the concert is a HUGE draw, Farm Aid offers many other events around promoting food from family farms, growing the good food movement, helping farmers thrive, and taking action. One of the additional events if the HOMEGROWN Village which occurs from Noon-5 p.m. before the concert and this year Renewing the Countryside will be joining the village!
The HOMEGROWN Village
In the HOMEGROWN Village, festivalgoers will explore interactive exhibits and activities that engage all of their senses. Food and farm groups from across the country showcase exhibits about soil, water, energy, food and farming through art, games, and hands-on activities. In the HOMEGROWN Skills area, festivalgoers attend skillshares and demonstrations, celebrate the culture of agriculture and go home with new skills. Farmers, farm activists and festivalgoers come together in the FarmYard to meet and share stories. On the FarmYard Stage farmers and concert artists discuss urgent issues.
Renewing the Countryside is one of roughly 30 non-profits/organizations selected from across to country to participate in the HOMEGROWN Village. We are thrilled and honored to be a part of Farm Aid 40, connect with festivalgoers, and speak to the great work we, and our fellow organizations, do for local foods, farmers, and rural communities.
Renewing the Countryside's exhibit/activity in the HOMEGROWN Village will be Leave a Print for Local Food. You'll be able to make a Homegrown Hanky with linocuts made by local artists! See sneak peeks in the images below. All prints were made with food, farming, and agriculture as the theme. Local artists involved include Mike McColl, Malena Handeen, Alexandria Harris, Pell Lepp, Mike Granlund, and Seitu Jones. Along with creating a Homegrown Hanky you can participate in local food bingo and learn about food in the region!
| RTC Posters for Farm Aid 40 |
