Farm Aid's 2007 Upstate-Downstate Food and Farm Caravan stopped at Dilmun Hill, Cornell's student-run organic farm and experiential learning center, Sept. 5.

Farm Aid's caravan began its tour at the Great New York State Fair Sept. 3 and is crisscrossing the state, visiting farms in Rochester, Ithaca, Albany and the Hudson Valley to highlight cutting-edge community efforts and state-supported programs that strengthen New York agriculture and to help more people gain access to good food grown on family farms. The tour will culminate Sept. 9 with an annual benefit concert, Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival, at Randall's Island in New York City.

Dilmun Hill Student Farm, located just west of the Cornell Orchards near Judd Falls Road and state Route 366, is a 12-acre experiential learning center that provides opportunities and educational facilities for Cornell students, faculty, staff and the local community in the exploration of sustainable food and agricultural systems.

Farm Aid's mission is to build a vibrant family-farmcentered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews host an annual concert to raise funds to support Farm Aid's work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family-farmed food. Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $30 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the current system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.