The BC Farmers Union was one of the regional organizations that came together to form the NFU in 1969. At that time, Farmers Institutes (FIs), created by the Farmers and Women’s Institutes Act, already existed in BC as the local gathering place for farmers, so NFU locals never formed. Over the years, a few have remained strong and steady, but many FIs became inactive or reduced their scope of activities. Recently, farmers across the province have been dusting off abandoned FIs and breathing new life into them. Come learn about what is motivating farmers to pick up these tools again now, what farmers can do using the structure of the Farmers Institutes, the legislative changes being sought by a newly revived FI, and what kind of advocacy work is happening.