Chico Resolution to State Grange - Going National!
Tuesday, December 29 2009 @ 09:34 PM MST
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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