[Community_garden] FW: FARM BILL ALERT: Support REAL Funding for Community Food Projects!

[Diane Dodge]

Remember, "Community Gardening is 50% gardening and 100% political.  Call your representative.
PLEASE.
 
Diane Dodge


From: casa2 at amaonline.comTo: casa2 at amaonline.comSubject: FW: FARM BILL ALERT: Support REAL Funding for Community Food Projects!Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:48:34 -0500




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2007 FARM BILL ALERT Community Food Projects could be Zeroed Out... Action Needed! Support Blumenauer Amendment for REAL Funding for CFP 
Begun in 1996, the Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFP), has been incredibly successful at empowering low-income communities to identify problems related to food security and take action to permanently solve them with a small investment from the federal government. The administrators of the CFP program highlight it as one of USDA's most effective local initiatives supporting farmers and consumers. 
Community Food Projects is ZEROED OUT!
In the past, the program has received $5 million annually in mandatory or REAL funding, that doesn't need to be fought for each year. However, WE NEED YOUR HELP, because the House Agriculture Committee has not included any REAL money for CFP in the Farm Bill which will be voted on TOMORROW. While the House Agriculture Committee increased funds for CFP to $30 million, the money is not mandatory, meaning that it's possible this vital program gets nothing at all when it comes time to dole out the money each year. There is no money in the appropriations bill for FY '08, so if the Farm bill doesn't include mandatory money, there could be no money for CFP in 2008. Please help us save this popular and vital program.
Call your Representative RIGHT NOW!
With the House of Representatives voting on the Farm Bill TOMORROW, it's important that all Representatives recognize the imprtance of CFP and the need to to fund it. The message is simple: Please call your Representative and ask his/her office to support the Blumenauer amendment for MANDATORY funding for CFP. This detail is important because this may be one of several amendments offered by Blumenauer. If you don't know who your Representative is or need to find their number, call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. These quick phone calls will take less than 10 minutes of your time, but could make a huge impact on whether this program continues.For more background on the Community Food Projects competitive grant program visit the Community Food Coalition Website at http://www.foodsecurity.org/Sheilah DavidsonAdministrative Director National Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture P.O. Box 396 Pine Bush, New York 12566 Phone: 845-361-5201 Fax: 845-361-5204 e-mail: sheilah at sustainableagriculture.nethttp://www.sustainableagriculture.net/
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