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

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Ujamaa’s mission is to cultivate and create agency for BIPOC farmers and give their communities easy access to the foods important to them. Ancestral knowledge is with the people who stayed in the rural areas who are aging out. Some of the most exciting stuff happening in the urban local regional food system is led by people of color.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Ujamaa’s Hawkins also sees the collective cultivating much more than food. That’s the only way we survived.”

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145