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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. They create little employment in the local area because they grow cash crops that don’t need many farmworkers.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

With tobacco as his principal cash crop, Arthur needed to purchase fertilizer before December and prepare the land for planting by February or March. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. The delays in payment could be devastating.