Crop Ruralism Sharecropping 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. Recently in July 2024, the USDA announced it had issued payments amounting to $2.2
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The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.
The Equation
AUGUST 27, 2024
The failure of this act likely played a role in paving the way for sharecropping and tenant farming. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, another opportunity for land ownership was presented through sharecropping and tenant farming. Recently in July 2024, the USDA announced it had issued payments amounting to $2.2
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. But in places where Black sharecroppers were really in need of federal food subsidies, white farmers could benefit from the crop programs and then their counties could go ahead and opt out of the food programs. Like what you see here?
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Investors usually amass agricultural parcels for planting large-scale, high-value commodity crops, or develop them for residential and urban uses. Nathanial Brown owns Brown Sugar Farms in Citrus Heights, where he grows unusual crops such as Caribbean red, striped, and fish peppers, stinging nettles, and flowers.
Civil Eats
JUNE 4, 2024
We’d like to take that further and look at the Indigenous seed-keeping skills and technologies that develop the ‘crops’ we have today. Ancestral knowledge is with the people who stayed in the rural areas who are aging out. A lot of our work is restoring the basic knowledge and traditions. The industry is consolidating.
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