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Help Us Protect Local Food: FTCLDF’s Summer Fundraiser!

By D Laninga | August 5, 2025

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund seeks support to meet the growing legal needs of independent farms, ranches, and local artisan and cottage food producers. To improve and increase our services to these producers, we are holding a summer fundraiser.  By donating to FTCLDF, you are helping to ensure that . . .   Someone picks up […]

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Hotline Blotter: April-June 2025

By D Laninga | July 2, 2025

Our Emergency Hotline consistently ranks as the benefit our members value most.    It’s available 24 hours for surprise inspections or short-notice regulatory interruptions of a member’s farm, ranch, or business. Our on-call attorneys can be available by phone during a stressful, unexpected farm inspection or even seizure of product.    We provide a Hotline Blotter […]

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The Unconstitutional Chicken Ordinance

By D Laninga | June 4, 2025

In October of 2024, one of our members reached out for help with a zoning notice she’d received from her Michigan city. The notice claimed she’d been raising chickens without a permit, violating the city’s chicken ordinance. The notice called for Kathy to remove her chickens from her property.   The thing is, Kathy had a […]

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Defending the rights and broadening the freedoms of family farms and protecting consumer access to raw milk and nutrient dense foods. Copyright © 2007-2025 · For more information: email: [email protected] · Phone: (703) 208-FARM (3276) · Falls Church, VA Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) The content of this website is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended to be nor should it be construed as either a legal opinion or as legal advice. Articles posted here do not necessarily represent the views or the position of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.