Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. today it is less than 2 percent.

Acre 103

Acre Farming Farming Crop 103

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Grow Dat is a seven-acre urban farm with 13 full-time adult staff, and a rotating crew of teenagers who work there after school. They learn how it’s on land called Bulbancha by Indigenous people from the region, how it used to be a plantation and then, once it became a park, how it was white-only until 1958.

Farming 84

Farming Farming Harvesting Harvester 84

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Farming reflections from 1985 Steele Addison was a prominent farmer, arboriculturist and local politician who, alongside his wife, Margaret, farmed 600 acres at Greystone House and Keld Farm in Cumbria, England. Tractors are expected to cut four acres an hour. Dramatic changes started to occur at the outbreak of the Second World War.

Ruralism 52

Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

The obstacles are particularly acute for Black farmers, who own far fewer acres of farmland today than they did a century ago. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. They knew the federal government was promising 160 acres each to prospective settlers such as themselves, to improve land in the West. So they moved.

Farming 140

Farming Farming Acre Seeding 140