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The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
Following the formation of the USDA in 1862 and the abolishment of slavery in 1865, many formerly enslaved African Americans pursued independent farming. Such promises included “ 40 acres and a mule ,” the first unsuccessful systematic attempt at providing reparations. This was a losing battle for most of them.
Modern Farmer
JULY 16, 2024
In Montclair’s Third Ward is a tiny farm with big community value. In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents.
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Modern Farmer
JUNE 30, 2023
Prime farmland, it attracted countless farmers, including the Black farmers seeking to fulfill the promise of “40 acres and a mule” that followed the American Civil War. But Black farm ownership has dropped dramatically over the years, with just 1,500 estimated to remain in Arkansas today. But the process hasn’t always come easily.
Wisconsin Farmers Union
JULY 9, 2024
Martice Scales and Amy Kroll-Scales founded Full Circle Healing Farm in 2017, leaving stable career paths to start healing their community from the ground up. Full Circle Healing Farm is a two acre vegetable, herb, and flower farm in Mequon. I really started to farm because it’s an act of resistance.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 27, 2023
We detailed how a Minneapolis neighborhood is working to turn a former Superfund site into a community-owned indoor urban farm and hub. The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most Underserved Neighborhoods For two decades, the 1.5-acre
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Over the next 15 years, California will have to repurpose about 1 million acres of cropland, most of it out of the 5.5 million irrigated acres in the San Joaquin Valley. Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings. a century ago found their way to Allensworth.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Surrounded by low-income apartments, senior housing, and the cheerful hum of an elementary school playground, We Grow Farms is an unlikely yet central landmark in West Sacramento. 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.
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