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Dear Friends,
Farm Aid 2024 is this Saturday! The Farm Aid staff has traveled from all over the country to Broadview Stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. We're getting the HOMEGROWN Village ready, preparing HOMEGROWN Concessions® and kicking off our pre-festival farmer events. If you're joining us in person this weekend be sure to read through the venue rules and make sure your bag meets the guidelines!
If you won't be in New York, you can still be a part of the excitement! Here are ways to watch and listen from wherever you are:
- Watch on FarmAid.org or our YouTube channel. We'll livestream the full festival (including our press event) from the stage beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET.
- SiriusXM subscribers can listen to Farm Aid 2024 starting at noon ET on SiriusXM’s Willie’s Roadhouse (channel 61) and Dave Matthews Band Radio (channel 30) via SiriusXM radio and on the SXM app. Live coverage will include backstage interviews with artists and family farmers, hosted by SiriusXM’s Dallas Wayne, Ari Fink and Joey Black. Eligible customers can get their first three months of SiriusXM streaming for free. Click here to see offer details, sign up and experience all that SiriusXM has to offer.
Below is a step-by-step guide for an awesome
Farm Aid 2024 festival!
Get the Farm Aid 2024 app: Download the Farm Aid 2024 app for iPhone and Android to personalize your festival experience. Use it to get details about the HOMEGROWN Concessions® menu, learn the stories of local farmers, and make a schedule of music, workshops and artist briefings for the day.
The app includes photo frames so that you can share your Farm Aid 2024 experiences. Use hashtags #FarmAid2024 and #Road2FarmAid and we'll repost your pics!
Get your hands dirty: In the HOMEGROWN Village, you can celebrate and engage in the cultures of agriculture. From noon until 5:00pm, experience hands-on activities about climate, soil, water, energy, food and farming. Check out our FarmYard Stage where farmers and artists will discuss pressing issues, like food access, soil health and climate change and share inspiring stories. In the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent participate in hands-on demonstrations, including beekeeping, willow weaving and mushroom growing.
Swap Seeds: Join us for our annual HOMEGROWN Seed Swap! Bring seeds from home and come on down to the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent to meet enthusiastic seed savers, swap seeds and go home with new varieties to try (you can take home seeds even if you have none to swap). If you’re bringing seeds keep them domestic, please, and bring them in a sealed and labeled envelope.
Meet a Farmer: Introduce yourself to a farmer! We're here to celebrate farmers and they'll be all around at Farm Aid 2024. Look for people wearing a "farmer" pass, enjoy their food at HOMEGROWN Concessions® and hear from them on the FarmYard Stage and in the HOMEGROWN Skills Tent.
Eat HOMEGROWN: We're proud to offer family farm food throughout the venue. Our HOMEGROWN Concessions® contains ingredients produced by family farmers utilizing ecological production practices with a fair price paid to the farmers. Check out menu items like: local pastured beef burgers, pastured pork sausages, delicious cheeses from pasture-based and organic dairies, watermelon and feta salad, cider donuts made from local flour and much more. Farm Aid partners with Legends Hospitality and Live Nation to offer HOMEGROWN Concessions®.
📣 Against the Grain EP 6: Connecting Farmers and Eaters
Want to learn about how HOMEGROWN Concessions® started and how it's changing the live music industry? Take a listen to our brand-new podcast episode where farmers and eaters unite!
Make Soil: We're passionate about composting and recycling. With a goal of zero waste, HOMEGROWN Concessions® uses compostable serviceware and Farm Aid promotes and supports composting in the venue. Loving Earth Compost of Saratoga will receive the food waste gathered at Farm Aid 2024 to make future soil.
Wear the mission on your T-shirt: Take home a Farm Aid t-shirt, hoodie, bandana or hat. New limited-edition items include a custom screenprint poster by artist Gary Houston and Wachiay Studio, regenerative leather bracelets stitched by Native artists from Oyate Studio and locally produced leather key fobs. Our online store is open for pre-orders!
Support the Regional Food Bank: Festivalgoers are encouraged to bring non-perishable, unopened items in original packaging. Grains, soups, proteins and personal hygiene items are highly desired. No glass or pet food, please! Food Bank volunteers will be stationed at both entrances. The Food Bank helps feed 350,000 people each month through a network of more than 1,000 partner agencies and direct distribution programs.
100% of the fresh, nutritious food grown on the Regional Food Bank's farm, Patroon Land Farm, goes to the clients of the Food Bank! Learn more about the farmers, the Food Bank and their efforts to fight hunger.
Chat with a volunteer: So many folks donate their time to create an incredible Farm Aid experience for all festivalgoers. Our team (in the volunteer t-shirts) is ready to help out in any way!
Eat apples at the HOMEGROWN Youthmarket Presented by Taste NY: Come to our farm stand run by young people who care about agriculture. This year's HOMEGROWN Youthmarkets will be staffed by young people from Saratoga County 4-H, The National Grange, FFA’s Saratoga County chapter and Two Bridges Youth Farmers Market. Festivalgoers can meet these young adults, learn about the work they do in their communities, get to know the farms represented and taste fresh fruits, vegetables, cider, juices, cookies and maple candy from local farms and orchards. Donors supporting the HOMEGROWN Youthmarket include Square, Red Jacket Orchards and Indian Ladder Farms.
Support the mission: We can't do our work without you! Show family farmers you stand with them. Give $100 or more to get the official Farm Aid 2024 logo shirt made with organic cotton.
Have fun and spread the word: Tell your friends and family about your Farm Aid experience by posting about #farmaid2024 and your #Road2FarmAid on social media.
P.S. Watch this year’s Farm Aid Farmer Forum, “A Rural Call to Action for All.” The event will feature farmers and speakers from all over the country. Watch live on our YouTube channel on Friday, September 20, from 9am – 4:30pm EDT. Click here to learn more.
Many thanks to Farm Aid 2024's valued sponsors including:
