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2025 Membership Drive Is Feb. 1 – Mar. 15: It’s a Great Time to Join!

By Suzanne Sisk | March 12, 2025

Have you been thinking about joining our community? It’s a great time to join! If you or someone you love is an independent farmer, rancher, cottage food maker, chef, or concerned consumer, take advantage of all the great discounts, offers, and prizes during our 2025 Membership Drive!  TIP: Look for our advertisement in the Stockman […]

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This article can be found in: Events, Membership, Press Room This article is related to: consumer member, farmer member, food freedom, FTCLDF member, FTCLDF Members, homestead member, hotline, join, member benefits, membership

A Win for Michigan Right to Farm!

By Suzanne Sisk | March 7, 2025

  Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is pleased to announce an important win on behalf of  Michigan Right-to-Farm and FTCLDF members Cottonwood Farm/Morningstar Ventures, LLC.  In an ongoing legal battle, the Michigan Appellate Court ruled in favor of Morningstar Ventures, LLC that the case is entitled to a Right-to-Farm defense. The matter involves a Washtenaw County […]

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This article can be found in: Litigation This article is related to: attorney, chickens, court, food freedom, food laws, food rights, FTCLDF Cases, FTCLDF Members, goats, litigation, livestock, Michigan, poultry, Right to Farm

Farm-to-Consumer Signs onto the LOCAL Foods Act to Benefit On-Farm Slaughter

By Suzanne Sisk | October 7, 2024

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is one of dozens of organizations, and more than 600 signatories from across the country to support a petition by Rural Vermont to improve the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). Currently, FMIA only allows farmers to raise, slaughter, and butcher their animals without inspection for their personal use, not sold to […]

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, Litigation, Press Room, State Laws and Regulations, State News This article is related to: commercial kitchen, cottage food, food freedom, food law, food laws, food rights, food safety, foodborne illness, litigation, Maine

New Developments in the Fight for Food Sovereignty in Maine

By Suzanne Sisk | September 11, 2024

For almost two years Maine state regulators have kept a small home food business from serving healthy, prepared meals to a rural community. Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), in support of Kenduskeag Kitchen owner Rhiannon Deschaine and other members, maintains the action taken by the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) […]

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, Litigation, Press Room, State Laws and Regulations, State News This article is related to: commercial kitchen, cottage food, food freedom, food law, food laws, food rights, food safety, foodborne illness, litigation, Maine

A Seat at the Table: A Right to Food Fundraiser is Sept. 28, 2024 in Portland, Me.

By Suzanne Sisk | August 29, 2024

Join us in the fight to protect the rights of local, sustainable, farmers, food makers, and their consumers! FTCLDF and some of our members are in a critical Right to Food legal battle between Kenduskeag Kitchen, a small, local, food producer, and the State of Maine.  FTCLDF’s “A Seat at the Table” fundraiser, to be held […]

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This article can be found in: Events, Food Rights News, Fundraising, Litigation This article is related to: food freedom, food rights, fundraiser, kenduskeag, kenduskeag kitchen, lawsuit, litigation, local, Maine

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