Pivot Points

Statewide and National Civic Engagement as a farmer with Jack Hedin and Bill Pluecker

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Jack Hedin of Featherstone Farm and Maine State Representative Bill Pluecker of Begin Again Farm share how their decades of civic engagement grew directly out of their identities as farmers and their desire to shape the policies that affect rural communities.

Both farmers are candid about the real costs of that engagement, whether it's nearly losing a carrot crop while advocating in Washington…