Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

Plantation 113

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. In the Delta, it is around 1 percent, and those farms cover, on average, less than 100 acres.

Acre 52

Acre Farming Farming Crop 52

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. In the case of Allensworth, the town is surrounded by hundreds of acres of pistachios that belong to a trillion-dollar insurance company.

Agriculture 106

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 106

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

The birth of an unjust agricultural system From plantations to sharecropping, since its inception the U.S. The current state of our food and faming system was born from the plantation system in the antebellum South that displaced and stole land from Indigenous nations and exploited Africans and their descendants through forced slavery.

Food 81

Food Plantation Farming Farming 81