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Urban Farms are a Lifeline for Food-Insecure Residents. Will New Jersey Finally Make Them Permanent?

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

The high cost of a permit (up to $5,000 annually) forced her to end her composting program this spring. Even after slavery was abolished in New Jersey in 1866, white farmers created their own form of sharecropping called “ cottaging ,” where former enslaved Black people would provide labor in exchange for shelter and crops.

Food

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

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. It really is modern-day sharecropping. Today, the approximately 40,000 Black farmers remaining in America own less than 1 percent of the countrys farmland. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water.

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Agriculture Informer

Urban Farms are a Lifeline for Food-Insecure Residents. Will New Jersey Finally Make Them Permanent?

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

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