This week we’re gearing up for Earth Day 2023 (coming up on Saturday, April 22) and this year’s theme is “Invest In Our Planet.” To take part, we will be encouraging everyone we know to support farms, ranches and businesses that improve the health of our planet (see below for more details). We also recently launched a new high-quality promotional video highlighting AGW certifications and why they are important. Please check it out and feel free to share widely!

Earth Day 2023: Invest In Farms That Invest In Our Planet
We know that as sustainable farmers you invest in our planet daily, in ways that are valuable beyond measure: to produce food for your communities, rebuild the soil, increase biodiversity and positively impact the health of people, animals and the environment. This Earth Day we will be encouraging our network to ‘Invest In Farms That Invest In Our Planet’, by shopping for AGW-certified products, supporting and promoting the work of AGW-certified businesses, or making a donation to A Greener World. Would you be willing to help spread our Earth Day message and video to your followers, customers and networks? If so, please feel free to click the links to share these posts on your social media platform of choice (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

Congratulations April Jones Thatcher, Organic Trade Association’s 2022 Organic Farmer of the Year
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) recently announced their 2022 Organic Leadership Awards, and April Jones Thatcher of April Joy Farm was named Organic Farmer of the Year. April raises Certified Animal Welfare Approved by AGW laying hens on the farm in Washington and grows a wide variety of wide array of heirloom and specialty fruits, vegetables, herbs. Congratulations, April, for all that you and your farm bring to your community.

REMINDER to AGW-certified farmers: Update Your Directory Listings
Our online directory is ever-changing as we add new grocery stores, restaurants, distributors, local markets and outlets that carry AGW-certified products. Are your listings current? To make sure, just search your farm name in our online directory, and your listings should populate. Need to make changes? Update your vendor listings here or get in touch with your regional coordinator.

In the News

• Morning Ag Clips and Farm Progress features Blue Ledge Farm in Salisbury, VT in an article about upcoming farm tours that are part of dairy goat research from UVM Extension and the Center for Rural Studies.

• Tahlequah Daily Press features Shepherd’s Cross in Claremore, OK in an article the farms’ upcoming “sheep to shawl” festival called Wooly Weekend.

• Bevnet.com and Food Industry Executive featured write ups about a2 Milk Company’s newly launched line of Certified Regenerative by AGW milk.

• Civil Eats featured Joia Food Farm in Charles City, IA in the op-ed, “We need a new farm bill for my Iowa farm and beyond.”

• Everything Zoomer featured Tamarack Farms in Roseneath, Ontario in “An Ontario hidden gem road trip.”

• Somerset County Gazette features The Slow Farming Company in Castle Cary, UK for their Certified Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Non-GMO by A Greener World for laying hens and meat chickens and Certified Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Grassfed and Certified Non-GMO for beef cattle.

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