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The best way to ensure environmental laws are created and protected is to ensure your lawmakers value your environment, public health and your way-of-life.
Do your research and VOTE!

EARLY VOTING for the 2020 PRIMARY: FEBRUARY 20 – MARCH 29, 2020

ELECTION DAY: MARCH 3

If you cannot get to the polls, please request an absentee ballot.

NO EXCUSES: VOTE


TAKE ACTION ON GENX / EMERGING CONTAMINANTS:

  1.  Contact Sens. Burr and Tillis and tell them to require EPA add PFAS chemicals to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
  2. Contact your legislators and ask that they:
  • Provide DEQ funding for staff and equipment necessary to protect our water;
  • Provide DHHS funding for staff and equipment necessary to protect our health;
  • Restore DEQ’s authority to regulate air emissions by repealing the limitation in G.S. 143-213(9) which removes ’emissions’ from the definition of ‘discharge’

Tell your legislators to support people over polluters!


TAKE ACTION ON FACTORY FARMING:

  1. Call your legislators and ask them to fund the CAFO buyout program so that ALL CAFOs within the floodplain can be bought out. 
  2. Watch this powerful video short, just released in April 2018, which includes interviews with Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette and other water quality experts in our region, along with poignant commentary from how this industry affects your neighbors’ health and quality-of-life:

A Pig Issue

3. Are you supporting THIS? 

Or THIS?

While we cannot shut down this powerful industry (yet); we can take steps to:

  • Reduce the affects on health and quality-of-life for those living near the facilities;
  • Reduce pollution to our waterways, the soil and the air;
  • Reduce health issues and costs;
  • Reduce animal cruelty

HOW? . . . Consumer Power!
You can reduce support of industrial farming through your consumer choices. By supporting real, local farmers who practice environmentally sustainable farming methods, you are sending a message to polluters and hitting them where it matters to them – their bottom line.

Farms, not Factories, in the Cape Fear Watershed

AJ Family Farm
161 N White Lake Ave., Garland, NC 28441
(910) 529-1938
email: ajffarm@gmail.com
website: https://www.ajfamilyfarm.com/index.html

Alchemy Ranch
1025 Racoon Hollow Rd, Atkinson, NC
(910) 231-3830
alchemyranch@gmail.com

Beartrack Farm
461 Chesnutt Rd.
Turkey, NC 28393
(919) 357-6273
website: https://beartrackfarms.wordpress.com/

Changin’ Ways
Hampstead, NC
(703) 967-6535
website: https://www.changinways.com/

Creeks Edge Farm
Blueberry Rd
Currie, NC 28435
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/creeksedgefamilyfarm/
email: creeksedgefamilyfarm@gmail.com

Grass Roots Pork Company
1258 Cedar Fork Rd
Beulaville, NC 28518
(919) 618-8110
email: grassrootspork@yahoo.com

Growing Tall Acres
285 Guy Sanderson Rd.
Albertson, North Carolina 28508
(252) 521-0745
website: www.growingtallacres.com

 Humble Roots Farm
1247 Scotts Hill Loop Rd.
Wilmington, NC 28411
(910) 538-3728
email: humblerootsfarmers@gmail.com
website: https://www.humblerootsfarm.com/

Lizzy Lou’s Family Farm
493 Richard Switch Rd.
Currie, NC 28435
(910) 470-8723
website: https://lizzylousfamilyfarm.net/

Old River Farms
8711 Old River Rd
Burgaw, NC 28425
(910) 616-5884
website: www.oldriverfarmsnc.com

Red Beard Farms
3220 Castle Hayne Rd
Castle Hayne, NC
Facebook Page
email: redbeardfarms@gmail.com

Red Tail Farm
1212 Malpass Corner Rd.
Burgaw, NC 28425
Phone: (910) 259-1761
website: www.redtailedfarm.com

Patch Farmstead
Bolton, NC
(910) 742-6667
website: www.patchfarmstead.com

SF Farms
Clarkton, NC
(252) 808-7340
website: http://www.sffarms.org/