More than 100 people packed The Mill in Iowa City in March to support the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust and listen to great music by folk legend Dave Moore and rising stars Steve and Michaela McLain. "The ACLU raised $24 million the week after Trump was elected," SILT Executive Director Suzan Erem told the crowd. "That's $24 million that didn't go to groups fighting hunger, homelessness or even farmland protection for the future. The current polarization we are witnessing in America is sucking us dry spiritually, morally and financially." SILT was able to raise a record amount of funds [...]

The SILT/Awful Purdies collaboration of a music video about farm transfer was featured in a recent edition of Little Village Magazine in Johnson County. The video has sparked discussions across Iowa and a number of calls and emails to SILT asking how to protect land permanently. Interested in getting the word out in your community? Connect us with your local media. We'll be glad to talk!