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Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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.

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The contribution of farming to the rural environment: A farmer’s viewpoint in 1985

Sustainable Food Trust

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.

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The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans

Modern Farmer

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.

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Op-ed: Black Producers Have Farmed Sustainably in Kansas for Generations. Let’s Not Erase Our Progress.

Civil Eats

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.

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