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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

Even by just raising three or four acres of tobacco, families could make a respectable return that helped their farm’s economic viability. I watched tractor pulls and played high school football games there. The first is farmland loss from haphazard real estate development, the kind that leads to rural gentrification.

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. growers and owned more than 16 million acres of land. percent of all farmers and own fewer than 5 million acres. Today, they make up just 1.3