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USDA Forced To Freeze Funding To Small Farms

3/14/2025

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USDA Forced To Freeze Funding To Small Farms

A brown and white spleckled horned Pineywoods calf stands in a snowy field during a snow storm
USDA's funding freeze is affecting small farms and local food
We were awaiting payment for a USDA grant awarded to us in 2024 when the Administration froze all payments on January 27th. Initially we were hopeful that the judge’s ruling would lift the freeze, but the Administration has kept the freeze in place.
 
The grant would have allowed us to expand our regenerative farming approach. My wife Sue and I took money out of retirement savings to pay for work completed in October 2024 with the expectation that the USDA would uphold their end of the bargain. Other farmers have done similar.
 
Perhaps that was a bit naive on our part. Our grant was awarded out of USDA’s Climate Smart Commodities Partnership. It would help us conserve more forest, reduce fire risk without the use of herbicides while providing food and medicine for our cattle. With the word “climate” in it, it was bound to be a target for the Administration. I think of it as a Conservation grant. Most farms cut down forest to make room for cattle. This grant would have allowed us to conserve the forest by fencing it and allowing our Pineywoods Cattle herd to graze it, also know as silvopasture.

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#GATMStreets - Welcome to the Regenerative Farming Revolution!

5/25/2023

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You can become part of this grassroots movement by taking a photo of the sticker (and it's surroundings) and sharing on social media with the hashtags #gatmstreets #grazeagainstthemachine.

Graze Against The Machine Streets is a volunteer based, nascent grassroots movement in cities on 3 continents attempting to bring the true voice of regenerative farming to the streets while shedding light on crap farm policies. The street art scene in New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee inspired us to launch #gatmstreets from our small farm in North Carolina, USA!

a white downpipe affixed with various stickers and other street art
#gatmstreets spotted in the 9th Ward in New Orleans

The Machine is Shady

The Machine is shady. We try to shed some light on their bull.

Graze Against The Machine Streets is a direct response to special interests hijacking regenerative farming for their own profit. They’ve done the same with sustainable, organic and natural. In reality, regenerative farming is just a new "brand" tying to define the complex and honorable practices that indigenous communities around the world have used regenerative practices for thousands of years. They are the true keepers of this meaning . We must all listen to the wisdom they choose to share so we can learn what regenerative really means.

The campaign is also directed at the government entities that support farm policies that favor big corporation interests instead of small and under-served farms that are trying to do the right thing to support their local community and the environment.
 
Watch for #gatmstreets in Bloemfontein, Cadiz, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Durban, Durham, Johannesburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Washington DC, Windhoek and Zurich this summer.

Graze Against The Machine Streets in Zurich, Switzerland
Graze Against The Machine Streets in Pennsylvania, USA
Graze Against The Machine Streets in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA
Graze Against The Machine Streets in Winterthur, Switzerland
Graze Against The Machine Streets at Ebright Azimuth, Delaware, USA
Graze Against The Machine Streets in the 9th Ward in New Orleans
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