Advancing Us

Advancing Us is our body of organizing work on policy and political education. We work with local and national partners to gather input and advocate for our priorities around access to land, training, markets, emergency farmer assistance/ drought assistance, ending discrimination in lending, climate justice, environmental justice, and pollinator protections, among other issues.

(Farmer Tessa Parks, advocating for land access to public officials at MFCC organized Farmer Listening Session. at the Emerging Farmers Conference. Nov. 2024)

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

(Farmer Relyndis Tegomoh, speaking to farmer advocacy at the MFCC organized Policy Deep Dive Political Education session at the Emerging Farmers Conference Nov. 2024)

(Zoe Hollomon (MFCC Director) and other MN farmers joined with National Young Farmers Coalition and Land Stewardship Project to speak with representatives about Land Access, conservation and farmer-led education priorities for the next Farm Bill.)

(Shari Cueto, Beekeeper & Organizer with the Urban Farm & Garden Alliance, & Zoe Hollomon (MFCC) after a Pollinator Protection Advocacy day at the MN State Capitol, March 2024.)

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

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

(Farmer Moses Momanyi of KilimoMN, Zoe Hollomon of MFCC, Celize Christy of HEAL Food Alliance 2023)