Pennsylvania State Grange: Cultivating Community Champions
The Grange is a place for people of all ages to connect with others and with their community. We offer programs to develop leadership skills, build character and provide service to your community. In the spirit of friendship, Grangers accomplish great things while having a great time. Our gatherings are designed to be enjoyable for the WHOLE family.​
We added a new Grange Benefit!
​Make sure to go to the member
benefits page to check it out!
Make sure to send your upcoming Grange events to publicrelations@pagrange.org.
July 19-22, 2018
2018 Family Festival Schedule
Family Festival Registration
Paint your own Wooden Quilt Block
 
Back again by popular demand at Family Festival is the Paint Your Own Quilt Block workshop!  Register and come to Family Festival and learn how to paint a wooden quilt block to put on your Grange Hall, barn, house or garage. All materials - 2' x 2' board, paints, brushes, etc.  will be provided for $40.  All you have to do is show up, select a design from hundreds of patterns and get to work. If perhaps you know of a design you want, bring a picture of it with you.  Step by step directions with lots of one on one help will be provided.  
The initial meeting will be held on Thursday evening and then you will work on your block in small time slots the rest of the Festival. You will still have time to go on fieldtrips, attend workshops and socialize.  And NO you do not have to be artistically gifted - we have worked with people 8 to 93 and all have been successful.  
Pre-registration is required so sufficient materials are on hand.    If  interested in painting a larger block - 4'x 4' or  8'x 8' - contact Glenn and Barbara Gross at 724-290-3783 or email berglen@verizon.net to make arrangements.  It's lots of fun and you end up with a one of a kind block that you can take home and mount.

PA State Grange Convention
Pittsburgh Marriott North
Cranberry Township, PA
October 19 - 21, 2018

Reservation Information
Registration Form​
What is Broadband?
2018 Pa State Grange Legislative Meeting held at the PA Farm Show
Panel discussion on Broadband.

Pennsylvania State Grange
selects 2018-19 Youth Ambassadors

Congratulations Mikayla Davis from Ontelaunee Grange, and Isaac Mengel, Fleetwood Grange on being selected as the 2018/19 PA Grange Youth Ambassadors. Best wishes for a wonderful fun year!

Cumberland Valley withdraws bid to build school on protected farmland

Gail Switzer, our Deaf and Community Service Director, is going on a personal mission trip in November. Below is information on her trip and how to contact her if you would like to help her meet the financial needs to make this trip.

Gail Switzer's Nigeria Trip

Dr. James Diamond represented the Pennsylvania Grange at the Engage Cuba event and was a featured speaker.  He emphasized the importance of peace and trade.  Dr. DiamondFormer Dean at Delaware Valley University, has visited over 50 countries in a variety of official capacity beginning his International work as a Peace Corp volunteer. Dr. Diamond will be visiting Cuba this summer.

Engage Cuba Press Release
Updated edition of the directory!
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PA State Grange Directory 2107-2018
(revised June 2018)
Grange: Exempt preserved farms from seizure
PA Agricultural Mediation Program
PA Department of Agriculture
Dairy Resources
USDA Reopens Enrollment for Improved
​Dairy Safety Net Tool.

Rural America and the Opioid Crisis:
USDA hosted a discussion on the opioid crisis in Middletown, PA on Wednesday, March 14th.
​Very informative and provided a lot of perspective!

Part 1 Video
Part 2 Video

Governor Wolf at Broadband Press Conference  where he announces financial support for companies to expand service in rural areas.  President Wayne Campbell is pictured with Mark Smith, a former Bradford County commissioner who has served the Wolf administration as a deputy chief of staff, will serve as executive director of the office.
Morning Ag Clip Article
State Grange supports Wolf's
broadband initiative.
MEDIA STATEMENT on Wolf Broadband Initiative
 PA State Grange President Wayne Campbell says, 
"AG DAY MEANS HELPING PA DAIRY FARMERS."

​President Wayne Campbell's Letter to
School Programs Branch Policy and Program Development Division Food and Nutrition Service
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PA STATE GRANGE CALLS FOR
​WHOLE MILK IN SCHOOL
​NUTRITION FLEXIBILITY RULE

Pennsylvania Soybean Board
looking for nominations of individuals
to serve on their board.
Click here for more information!
Pennsylvania Grange News
July/August 2018
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