Keeping Farmers Farming to Protect the Future of Food

Behind every meal, there’s a story. It begins in the soil, in the field and in the hands of the farmers and ranchers who feed us.

Filmmaker and chef Oliver English has built his work around telling these stories. His deep appreciation for regenerative agriculture and farm-to-table cuisine led to his documentary Feeding Tomorrow and ultimately connected him to American Farmland Trust (AFT).

“Farmers are the backbone of America,” Oliver says. “And they’re often underappreciated or unseen.”

Oliver and his team are visiting farms across the United States, hearing how AFT’s farm viability grants, farmland protection efforts and research have helped farms survive and thrive. “It’s one thing to read about these programs on a website,” says Oliver. “It’s another thing entirely to sit at a farmer’s kitchen table and hear that a grant helped to keep their farm running, to protect their land from development, or to transition to more resilient practices.” 

The stakes are real. “If we lose our farmland, there is no future,” Oliver says. The farmers who steward our farmland need advocates, resources and people committed to the land that sustains us all. That’s what AFT does.  

Join Oliver and thousands of others helping to keep America’s farms and ranches thriving for the next generation. Become a member today here.