Cultivation Harvesting Seeding Sharecropping 
Civil Eats
JUNE 4, 2024
Traveling through Appalachia, Tessa Desmond and her team kept hearing the seed stories. He had overheard Desmond discussing seeds with his neighbor. People have hung on to seeds even when they aren’t actively planting and tending them,” says Desmond. We’ve included audio samples of oral histories from the project.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 27, 2023
The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. Now it’s focused on feeding its neighbors with support from across the city.
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