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

Civil Eats

When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. It really is modern-day sharecropping. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water.