OUR LEGACY LANDS WORKGROUP
The Farm Bill decides who eats and who doesn't. It decides whose water is clean, whose family keeps its land, and whose health is negotiable. This single piece of legislation shapes conservation on working lands, tribal consultation, heirs' property protections, and food access for millions of children and families. That makes it more than agricultural policy. With this campaign, we are expressing plainly a reality that all of us who steward land intimately know.
That land is a body and must be nourished. That we cannot cut it into fundable pieces and expect the pieces to bleed separately. The Farm Bill is a health bill. It cannot be cut into pieces without harming land and people.
The Farm Bill decides who eats and who doesn't. It decides whose water is clean, whose family keeps its land, and whose health is negotiable. This single piece of legislation shapes conservation on working lands, tribal consultation, heirs' property protections, and food access for millions of children and families. That makes it more than agricultural policy. With this campaign, we are expressing plainly a reality that all of us who steward land intimately know.
That land is a body and must be nourished. That we cannot cut it into fundable pieces and expect the pieces to bleed separately. The Farm Bill is a health bill. It cannot be cut into pieces without harming land and people.
The Farm Bill decides who eats and who doesn't. It decides whose water is clean, whose family keeps its land, and whose health is negotiable. This single piece of legislation shapes conservation on working lands, tribal consultation, heirs' property protections, and food access for millions of children and families. That makes it more than agricultural policy. With this campaign, we are expressing plainly a reality that all of us who steward land intimately know.
That land is a body and must be nourished. That we cannot cut it into fundable pieces and expect the pieces to bleed separately. The Farm Bill is a health bill. It cannot be cut into pieces without harming land and people.
Voices from our Community
This collective advocacy began with stories. Our workgroup members recorded a message to Congress.
Earned media
Earned media
Statements and Letters
Common Dreams published an op-ed by our workgroup leaders: Lorette Picciano, Executive Director of the Rural Coalition, and Kenya Crumel, co-lead of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition's Legacy Lands Workgroup and director of the Black Land and Power Workgroup at the National Black Food & Justice Alliance. Read the full piece here
Statements and Letters
STATEMENT. The America the Beautiful for All Coalition is Watching the Farm Bill
SIGN ON LETTER. Nineteen Organizations Representing Millions of Americans Urge the Senate Agriculture Committee to Protect SNAP, Conservation, Land Access, and Tribal Consultation in the 2026 Farm Bill
PRESS RELEASE. We Are Watching: National Coalition Responds as Senate Agriculture Committee Fails to Advance the 2026 Farm Bill
Messaging resources
MESSAGING GUIDANCE. Use our message guide to talk about this bill with your members, with Hill staff, on social media, with the press, or however it suits your community’s needs. Adapt it to your voice.
SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT. Ready-to-adapt copy for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky, plus graphics and the campaign video for reposting.
Messaging resources
Join us in watching the Farm Bill
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Join us in watching the Farm Bill
Share your Story. This bill affects farmers, land stewards, tribal nations, families, and all of us who eat. We want to hear from you.
Join us at Climate Week NYC 2026. On September 21, 2026, our Legacy Lands Workgroup presents at the Doris Duke Center's Treehouse in New York City. This builds on our presence at Climate Week NYC 2025, where we launched our Farm Bill Principles.
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