Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We detailed how a Minneapolis neighborhood is working to turn a former Superfund site into a community-owned indoor urban farm and hub. The Organic Urban Farm Growing Healthy Food for One of Chicago’s Most Underserved Neighborhoods For two decades, the 1.5-acre

Food 139

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 139

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

The heirloom gardens project, a collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , aims to memorialize their long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods. A lot of Black and Indigenous farmers are working full-time jobs and farming on weekends and at night.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Surrounded by low-income apartments, senior housing, and the cheerful hum of an elementary school playground, We Grow Farms is an unlikely yet central landmark in West Sacramento. Leased through the West Sacramento Urban Farm Program , the regenerative urban oasis attracts nearby residents, students, and plenty of honeybees.

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

“We came to Peru in 2016 and bought two farms in Ucayali at a public auction,” he has said. We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. “All that we have done, we have done without deforesting anything.” “What is it that people are going to do here in the jungle?”

Plantation 126

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 126