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	"author_name": "CAFF: Community Alliance with Family Farmers",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/caff",
	"title": "Don&#x27;t Let Small Farms Dry Up!",
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	"description": "THE PROBLEM: A second year of extreme drought is taking its toll on California’s small family farms, jeopardizing our local food community. The friendly faces you see each week at your local farmers market face record high temperatures, depleted reservoirs, water cutoffs, and wells coming up dry for the first time ever as corporate ag drills deeper wells with deeper pockets, tapping our life-giving aquifers. If we don’t act, we all run the risk of showing up to next week’s market only to find our favorite farms no longer there. Or our favorite restaurants pulling the names of farms from their menu. Or our neighborhood farm stands replaced with “for sale” signs. The risk runs even higher for our most vulnerable farms with the fewest resources: smaller farmers, immigrant farmers, and farmers of color from under-resourced communities. 2022 is so far the driest year in recorded history. It&#x27;s vital for California to forge a more sustainable water future and we at CAFF believe that that future must include small farms, local food, and a more equitable share of water for all. #dontletsmallfarmsdryup THE ASK: We’re calling upon the state to invest in short term support to ensure our small farms survive another season as well as long-term solutions promoting water-smart agriculture and equity in how California&#x27;s water policies. Please join Community Alliance with Family Farmers in urging your representatives to invest in the following: Support California’s family farmers with $50M in financial relief and well assistance to ensure smaller farmers have ongoing access to water and can continue operations through the most severe drought in our lifetimes. A one-time $10 million investment in programs that educate smaller farmers and farmers from underserved communities about participating in the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to ensure equity and inclusion in how California develops and implements its most consequential water policy ever. A one-time $2 million outreach and education program on the practice of dry farming, assisting vineyard operators in the coastal regions with growing wine grapes using less water.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/dont-let-small-farms-dry-up"
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