Prayer and Intention Circle For Miller’s Organic Farm

Please join me in creating a Prayer Circle for Miller’s Organic Farm. We will gather on zoom and follow a simple process of offering our prayers to them. All prayers/intentions will be in positive language – meaning we will be intending for this consistent surveillance to end, and possibly even have Miller’s Organic Farm become a model for the way all farmers might be beholden if the USDA wakes up to their insistence of using chemical and dangerous farming practices (see factory farming here –remember, you can’t unsee this). Our prayers will not be for intending any ill will or harm coming to anyone.

Join us on Monday, January 15, 2024 6:30pm (EST)

A Zoom link will be provided when you register.

Backstory

Amos Miller simply runs a family farm in Bird-in-Hand, PA. If you want to travel there and shop in their large refrigerators you are welcome. You will see about 5-10 young Amish folks working there. Packing up orders for delivery or making butter. Outside you will see the family home, with their laundry drying on the line. It’s a farm, nothing more. I have been there at least 30 times, I have never witnessed anything but an impeccably clean and tidy farm. Yet they are being treated like outlaws.

Miller’s Organic Farm has been a source for wonderfully ‘clean’ and sustainably-harvested meats and dairy products for well over 20 years — likely longer. In recent years they have been consistently monitored by the USDA and, whenever possible, fined and/or have had their goods confiscated. Why? Because their standards of what is clean far surpass what the USDA asks for.

What the USDA is doing is out of their purview. They are simply a labeling agency, meaning as a farmer, if you want their label, you must comply with their guidelines. All well and good. Something like organic. If you want to be labeled with Organic on your products, you follow the guidelines, inspectors come and either approve or do not. They aren’t insisting that you do organic and taking your products if you are not up to their standards. You just don’t get the label.

What the USDA had done with Miller’s Farm is insist that they follow their guidelines, even though they aren’t interested in their label. They have become an enforcement agency, which they are not licensed to. Many of us who order from Amos prefer not to comply because the USDA insists on using harmful chemicals in their harvesting process. Miler’s Organic Farm has been the only resource for those of us who prefer not to have those chemicals on our food supply for years. If the farm was to comply they would actually be lowering their own standards.

Over the past 5 years or so, they have been under constant surveillance and subject to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines with threat of putting Amos in jail and/or taking the land that has been in his farming family for hundreds of years.

You can support them navigate the loss of funds, everything their food is confiscated, or their immense legal fees here.

Let’s support Amos Miller and his family in a way that has meaning for them. Prayer.

Join us on Monday, January 15, 2024 6:30pm (EST)

A Statement from Barnes Law on the Illegal Raid of Miller's Organic Farm by the State of Pennsylvania:

"Today, the Department of Agriculture of the State of Pennsylvania suddenly came, without notice, raided Amos' farm, and detained everything Amos had in the farm's freezer. They did so in a lawless manner, without appropriate authority, in violation of their own rules and regulations, despite never objecting to the prior resolutions reached with the federal government, and despite a complete failure by the state to even reach out to Amos' known counsel, Robert Barnes. The state's own rules require advance notice, reasonable time frames for inspections, and a showing of credentials, none of which occurred here. Instead, the state unlawfully obtained a search warrant, based on materially false statements in an affidavit by a high ranking state official in an agency with a known grievance against independent farmers like Amos, and, after the raid and finding no evidence of wrongdoing, then illegally ordered detained every item of food in one of Amos Miller's coolers, including buffalo meat not even subject to federal regulation. The detention order is patently illegal under Pennsylvania law. Despite the constant harassment, Amos will continue to do all he legally can to provide the food his members deeply need. Amos thanks you for your continued support at this critical time for food freedom in America."

We thank you all for your support as our valued members. Please pray for us.

Thank you, and God Bless —

Amos and all of us here at Miller's Organic Farm