Forever Green will spend the Farm Aid 40 Festival weekend talking with farmers, farmer advocates and music fans about Continuous Living Cover agriculture and the crucial commercialization efforts that make ours a distinct platform.
On Thursday, September 18, Forever Green and the Bell Museum will host the start of the Farm Aid Farm Tour. After breakfast at the Bell, farmers and farmer advocates will head into the research fields to hear from Jake Jungers and Josh Gamble, both members of the Forever Green R&D Executive Team. The group will visit farmer partner, Kurt Kimber, at Kimber Contours in Farmington for a tour, lunch and a program of farmer speakers before heading on to the Hmong American Farming Association fields in Rosemount.
On Saturday, September 20, Forever Green will have a table in the Homegrown Village on the Festival grounds from 12-5pm. Mitch Hunter, Jess Gutknecht, Kevin Smith and George Annor, from the Forever Green R&D Executive Team, will be on hand throughout the afternoon.
Michelle Sharp of Meet the Minnesota Makers gave Forever Green a callout during her interview with KSTP 5 about Farm Aid's local sourcing efforts.
And, we received an unnamed nod in an Minnesota Star Tribune Opinion piece co-written by Tonya Allen, CEO of the McKnight Foundation; Jennifer Fahy, Co-Executive Director of Farm Aid; and Anna Wasecha, President of the West Central Initiative.