Food Rights Hour Radio w/Guest Host Donna Betts July 30 at 8-10pm Eastern

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Radio: Food Rights Hour with
Guest Host Donna Betts

Big Brother Knocks on the Door of the

Gravel Road Gang

July 30, 2011 - Saturday Evening

8-10 Eastern, 7-9 Central, 6-8 Mountain, 5-7 Pacific

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Donna Betts, Ohio farmer and activist, is the guest host for this Saturday's show. Her guest is Linda Fagan, a farmer and an original member of the Gravel Road Gang.

They will discuss the founding and purpose of the Gravel Road Gang. Donna Betts started the Gravel Road Gang in the winter of 2001; it included women of all backgrounds and served as a mentor and discussion group for new female farmers.

Donna and Linda will also discuss legal issues that they have encountered since being members. In 2006, both of them were told by the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) to stop selling raw milk as pet food even though their licenses had originally been approved by the ODA.

Please join the conversation this Saturday!

CALL-IN NUMBER: 800-313-9443

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If you miss the show, listen to the recording!

Guest: Linda Fagan

Linda Fagan is a farmer in Appalachia who homeschooled all eight of her children. She continues to revive a strip-farmed farm and has been involved in the local farmers' market since its inception. Linda runs a Grade A dairy with her eldest daughter. She is also an original member of the Gravel Road Gang.

See a picture of the Gravel Road Gang on page 32 of Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers, a 2007 book by Holly Bollinger which also featured Donna Betts among seventeen other women.

About the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund:

FTCLDF is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization made up of farmers and consumers joining together and pooling resources to protect the constitutional rights of the nation's family farms and the consumers who patronize them.

Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org or call 703-208-3276

Donna Betts

Radio Guest Host

Donna Betts has been a farmer in Ohio for 60 years. In 1967, she became the first woman in Ohio ever to be granted an FHA Farm Owners loan, which allowed her to purchase a 200-acre farm. Her sustainable agriculture farm has been home to sheep, chickens, goats, miniature donkeys, Tamworth hogs, and Belted Galloway beef cattle.

Donna established an agricultural learning center on her farm called Gwamma's Farm Retreat and has mentored many adults and children in sustainable farming and marketing. She was also the Farm Bureau Federation Board secretary, a volunteer firewoman, and a member of the Ohio Catholic Rural Life Council Board. She started the Tri-County Graziers Group and aided in the creation of River City Farmers' Market and Marietta Kitchen Creations, a shared-use kitchen where local farmers can prepare foods in a state-licensed facility.

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