Following the Metro Surge attacks in Chicago, and before the surge attacks in Minneapolis, MFCC coordinated a Resilience and Resistance in Policy training at the 2025 Emerging Farmers Conference in November, focusing on strategies for collaborative political organizing in the face of federal attacks on our immigrant and BIPOC communities. 

Pictured above are MFCC Exec. Director, Zoe Hollomon and co-facilitators, Wintana Melekin of Groundwork Institute, and Amanda Koehler of Koehler Consulting.

Advancing Us is our body of organizing work on policy and political education.

Alongside local and national partners, we advocate for our priorities around:

• Access to land
• Farmer training
• Markets
• Emergency farmer assistance and drought assistance
• Ending discrimination in lending
• Climate and environmental justice
• Pollinator protections.

We host on-line and in-person trainings, engage farmers in Farm Bill and legislative advocacy and host listening and accountability sessions with policymakers and agricultural agencies throughout the year.  For more information on our policy efforts, contact

Zoe@midwestfarmersofcolor.org

At the 2026 LSP Farm Family Breakfast, farmers of color from across Minnesota came together in powerful solidarity — from the far north and the Fond du Lac Reservation to urban growers in the metro and farmers from Southern Minnesota. (photo above)

United by a shared commitment to protecting our land, seeds, families, and future generations, these farmers met directly with legislators, attended legislative hearings, and raised their voices in the ongoing fight against harmful pesticide use and for equitable land access.

This gathering was more than a meeting — it was a powerful reminder that when farmers come together across communities and regions, our collective voice can create lasting change. (2026)

Michael Chaney, Project Sweetie Pie, and Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, AntiRacist Policy & Research Center, attend the 2023 Farmer's Climate Action Rally, at American University, Washington DC.          

Zoe Hollomon, MFCC Executive Director, with other MN farmers, National Young Farmers Coalition, and Land Stewardship Project, speak with representatives about farmer-led priorities for the next Farm Bill.

MFCC with HEAL Food Alliance staff & members at the 2023 Farmers Climate Action Rally in DC.