Spread the Love: Send Heartfelt Gratitude to Your Local Farmer

You can never thank a farmer enough. Living here, you know our Hudson Valley farmers + growers deserve our constant gratitude. This month, with your help, they are going to get the thanks they deserve. A lot of it, too.

INSIDE+OUT is thrilled to partner with the For Farmers Movement to send a shout out of love and heartfelt appreciation to our local HUDSON VALLEY farmers, who do so much to support our communities, families, and healthy ways of living. This February, we are joining the movement’s annual Love For Farmers campaign to show farmers our gratitude – in emails, snail mail, and with care packages – and to give them the opportunity to win a valuable project micro-grant, but more on that at the end.

Let’s Overwhelm Our Deserving Hudson Valley Farmers with Love and Appreciation

It all starts with YOU and your gratitude and love for YOUR farmers.

Let’s make sure that 100% of our farmers feel seen, heard, appreciated, valued and important as an essential part of our community, and that they are well-supported in their work. Together with the For Farmers Movement, we can make a difference in the lives of our Hudson Valley farmers.

Starting on Monday, February 3, the For Farmers Movement is launching its second annual National campaign, “Love For Farmers” that aims to connect non-farmers with their local farmers to shower them with small acts of kindness, gratitude, and love.

INSIDE+OUT is a proud partner of this LOVE campaign
with a focus on our HUDSON VALLEY farmers + growers.
Here’s How it Works: 

From February 3rd to 14th, submit your favorite farm’s info and make their day!

• Submit your favorite farmers’ name, email address and mailing address HERE and the For Farmers Movement will do the rest!
  • We’ll shower Hudson Valley farmers, ranchers and producers with a cascade of LOVE and APPRECIATION.
  • Each farmer submitted will receive a thank you “love” letters (postcards and emails) and,
  • A generous care package of hardworking skincare that every farmer needs (especially this time of year) from For Farmers’ partner O’Keeffe’s Hardworking Skincare.
• It’s that easy – Let’s do this!

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Wanna Get Involved? You can volunteer to send postcards to farmers. 

• Sign up HERE to send postcards to farmers in the Hudson Valley and beyond to show how much you care and how important you think small farms are in the food-community-environment ecosystem.
• When you sign up, the For Farmers Movement will send you up to 10 stamped postcards and addresses so that you can send a personal note of appreciation to farmers. 

Tell Everyone! Let’s not miss any of our treasured farmers!

Don’t underestimate the impact of a simple THANK YOU to your local farmers! Those two little words are really motivating to our hard working farmers and they don’t hear it as often as you might think! Don’t ASSUME that your farmers’ names have already been submitted. That’s how they get forgotten. Feel free to submit more than one favorite farm, too.

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Here’s a hint of what’s next for farmers in the Love For Farmers campaign.

Get Ready for the 2025 Farmer’s People’s Choice Awards!

We will share more news on the next phase of FARMER LOVE shortly, but it’s only fair that you get a sneak peak now.

1. All of the farmers you submit as a part of Love For Farmers are invited and encouraged to submit a 30-second video that shares a farm project that could use funding. Every farmer has one!
2. The videos will be shared as a part of the campaign’s People’s Choice Awards at the end of the month (Feb 24 to 28).
3. You get to vote and the winners will get a grant for their projects (Valued at $250 – $1000)

You can DONATE to Hudson Valley farmers project grants. 

• Every donation to the For Farmers Movement this February will go to the farmers who win the People’s Choice Awards.
• The more we raise the More Project Grant Prizes are Awarded!
• No amount is too small. Donate HERE.
• If you want your donations to go to Hudson Valley farmers, just note “HUDSON VALLEY” in the comments.

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About For Farmers Movement

The For Farmers Movement supports American farmers by sharing their stories, replacing myths with facts, awarding farmer grants & providing YOU with easy ways to support them. Founded by farmer, Dana DiPrima, For Farmers Movement shares ideas for transforming your relationship with small farms and farmers to improve your connection to your food, personal and family health, the environment, rural economies, and community development.

Read our Exclusive interview with For Farmers Movement’s founder, Dana DiPrima.
Connect with Dana DiPrima and For Famers Movement via her Website | Follow Dana on Instagram @xoxofarmgirl 

More news about the Love For Farmers People’s Choice Awards in our next post!