We need your support to stay in the room where decisions are made. Our programs Oregon Farm Link, Oregon Pasture Network, and Capital Assistance for Local Farmers build skills and share resources to make small and mid-size, highly diversified and local market farmers successful. Our policy work takes feedback from these programs, and our farmer base, to identify what problems can't be solved by training and resources distribution. Sometimes you need to change the system rather than working within it. Your support builds collective power in our local food system and helps make it possible for our farms to thrive. This year, your support helped us win as we approach the 2025 legislative session.
In the 2023 and 2024 sessions, our advocacy:
- Imposed the first limit on groundwater use (via the stockwater exemption) for factory farms
- Protected specialty seed production from canola contamination
- Secured $2.65M for small farmer drought resilience with our friends at the Oregon Community Food Sysytem Network
- Secured $2.5M for farmers market climate resilience and SNAP accessibility with our friends at the Oregon Farmers Market Association
- Modernized the Farm Direct Law so more farmers can bring more value added products to market
- Continued protection for Willamette Valley Canola Restricted District for another 3 years
- and more!
If you love this work and want it to continue, we need your support! Conventional and commodity agriculture has dozens of lobbyists and back room conversations, small farmers have us. Your donations go to support the programs you love and the work we do to help farmers thrive. Join FoFF with your donation of $50 or $5/month and count yourself part of the farm future Oregon deserves.
Thank You Gifts - Only until August 17th!
As a special bonus, and only during our Summer Membership Drive, we want to offer you some special thank you gifts for your contribution! All gifts from lower levels stack, and you can opt in or out of these on the last step of your donation. All gifts are shipped within 15 business days of donation to the address associated with payment.
- $50/one time or $5/month (FoFF Membership): Oregon Pasture Network 6-piece greeting card set
- $100/one time or $10/month: FOFF Pint Glass
- $200/one time or $20/month: FOFF "Grassrooted in Oregon" Tote Bag