Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

Plantation 140

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 140

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Writing in 1985, Steele presents a clear-eyed view of the complex environmental, economic and social challenges that were facing farmers, many of which continue to be at the heart of today’s conversations about our food and farming system. INTENSIFICATION Modern farming is intensive. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour.

Ruralism 52

Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the book, we meet Brandon Kaufman, a Kansas farmer who, after generations of family farming, plans “to get a divorce from wheat” to focus on perennials as a way to nurture the soil and the vital underground network of insects and microorganisms within it. Does the author ultimately take on the family farm?

Food 114

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 114

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. No, we were not afraid anymore,” said one resident of Casiavera, recalling a blockade they formed to take back the plantations. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

Food 128

Food Farming Farming Forage 128

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

In federal food and agricultural policy, the best vehicle to achieve this change is the food and farm bill. The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. food and farming system was built on systems of oppression that excluded Black farmers and exploited food system workers.

Food 80

Food Plantation Farming Farming 80