# Artist Ag-tivists

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Podcast: [Against the Grain: The Farm Aid Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/against-the-grain-the-farm-aid-podcast-6618947)
Published: 2025-08-13T09:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this third episode of Against the Grain's series on Artists and Activism, we talk to artists who come from farming backgrounds and have joined Farm Aid over the years to stand up for family farmers. We hear first from the legendary bluesman, Taj Mahal, who grew up picking tobacco and working on a dairy farm in Massachusetts before studying animal husbandry and agronomy in college. Like Taj, the other artists we talked to for this episode - Cassandra Lewis, Waylon Payne and Charley Crockett...

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