Farm-to-Table Growers Song - Song Page
© words & music by Annie Wilson
from the album Out on the Tallgrass Prairie
Album Note:
This song tells many reasons to buy your food from the ones who made it grow: it’s good for your health, good for the planet, and good for local rural economies.
Above image: Tallgrass Prairie Producers Co-op members serving grassfed beef at Kansas Sampler Festival, around 1996 (L-R Monica Young, Cathy Hoy, Earl Wright, Bruce Spare). Their product Tallgrass Beef had the first “grassfed” beef label issued by the USDA. From 1995-2000, Annie was Coordinator of this pioneering ten-family rancher cooperative.
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LYRICS
Buy our apples, our tomatoes, our corn and our wheat,
Our jelly and our bread, our peppers and our meat.
Put a real face on your food - not some logo from afar.
Know how your food was raised and who your growers are.
Eat a farm-to-table dinner with freshness that is sure,
Grown by local families in ways that keep land pure.
Our food is made from sun and soil - not stuff you can’t pronounce.
It’s full of natural nutrients packed in every ounce.
Skip the mega-market store for food that’s best of all.
Reject the thousand-mile bite - keep your carbon footprint small.
CHORUS
The connections that we form from our farm to your table
Are a personal commitment - not a fancy corporate label.
So keep your money local - don’t send it far away.
Support your own community - keep your dollars home to stay.
CHORUS
Buy our cucumbers and onions, our yogurt and our cheese,
Our grassfed beef and chicken, our pumpkins and our greens.
Say NO to food monopolies - help the local folks you know.
Buy your family’s food - from the ones who made it grow!