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Chico Resolution to State Grange - Going National!

Tuesday, December 29 2009 @ 09:34 PM MST

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Following is the resolution from the Chico Grange that was adopted by the California State Grange at this years 137th Annual State Convention in Orangevale, CA. The California State Grange will take our proposal to the National Grange to do the same! The proposal requests that California granges return to their original purpose: to protect and promote local, small-scale food production. This proposal was unanimously approved. As new State Grange President Bob McFarland told us, “this mission statement may best provide us with the ‘signature’ that we've been looking for.”

We are also excited to be providing leadership at the state level via the election of Jon Luvaas, Chico Grange’s outgoing president, to the State Grange Executive Committee.

CHICO GRANGE # 486

PROPOSED RESOLUTION #1 TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE GRANGE

LOCAL FARMLAND PRESERVATION AND FOOD SECURITY

WHEREAS: The Grange was historically among the strongest supporters of public policies and practices that protect agricultural land, family farms, and local agricultural economies from urbanization, corporate takeovers, and other threats to continued productivity; and

WHEREAS: The Grange has shifted much of its attention in recent decades toward other interests and away from its founding purpose to protect family farms and local farm land; and

WHEREAS: Industrial agriculture has come to dominate food production, replacing family farms, which have declined to a fraction of their historic levels and continue to decline; and

WHEREAS: Consumers have become heavily dependent on industrial agricultural products grown, produced, and shipped great distances, which requires significant oil consumption, raises costs, and often reduces quality; therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED: The California State Grange hereby reaffirms its primary historic mission: to support local small scale and family farms as an essential mainstay of local economies and food security, including support for farmers markets, community and school gardens, and gardening and food storage education programs at Grange halls and in Grange communities.

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