Interest Areas

There are many fields that Grangers are interested including:

• Acknowledging the first peoples on the land
  • Supporting the right of indigenous peoples to continue cultural practices that sustain food gathering and material culture.
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• Community Building
  • Civic Engagement
  • Social Justice
• Environmental Stewardship
  • Climate Change : Human activity has significantly impacted climate globally. 
    • Atmosphere: Carbon from industrial, commercial and residential sources has changed atmospheric conditions which inturn affect activities on the surface.  Ice caps are melting, seas are rising. 
    • Loss of Human Life:
      • Extreme weather fluctuations are causing flooding, tornados, hurricanes and droughts that are leading to famine, flooding islands and villages worldwide.
    • Biodiversity: While some warm climate species are spreading northward, other cold temperature species are dying out.  Invasive species are taking over native ones. 
    • Health: Smog and alergens are causing increasing rates of resperatory illnesses.
      • Water borne diseases are putting wild and domestic species under stress. 
• Agriculture
  • Fostering Buy Fresh, Buy Local by supporting local farmers markets.
  • Maintaining agricultural land.
  • Providing opportunites to young people to be involved in agriculture.
  • Historically, farmers around the world have monitored both astrological signs and the weather to manage planting and harvesting. 
  • Changing weather patterns force farmers to modify what and when they plant. 
  • Pests and soil diseases are causing crop damage.
  • Watersheds
    • Maintaining healthy streams for safe passages of anadromous fishes.
    • Maintaining native habitat and vegetation
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  • Fisheries
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Smart Growth
    • Infill when ever possible.
    • Transportation planning to promote walkable and bikeable communities.
    • Live work spaces
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  • Alternative Energy
• Rural Issues: People live far from urban centers for a number of reasons; slower lifestyle, better quality of life, more local control, closer to resources.  But rual people have also had to put extra effort into getting adequate representation to maintain things city folk take for granted.
  • Quality of Life
  • Health Care
  • Rural Broadband
  • Economic and social capital
  • Standard of Living
• Historic Preservation
  • Maintaining Grange Halls
  • Fostering the protection of agricultural landscapes.
  • Collecting the histories of the officers, activities and community relationships with subordinate granges.
• Cultural Preservation