Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

‘Rhythms of the Land’ Preserves the Untold Stories of Black Farmers Filmmaker and cultural anthropologist Gail Myers discusses the making of her documentary, the oppressive history of sharecropping, and power of seed saving for Black farmers. acre Growing Home farm grew fresh produce for restaurants and surrounding communities.

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Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 124

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

He also cultivates 75 acres of wheat, 83 acres of soybeans, 65 acres of corn, and 45 acres of hardwoods and pine trees. Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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.

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Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. Peru still had only 100,000 acres of palm under cultivation, and Melka was seeking to triple that number, according to a documentary film, “ The King of Cocaland.”

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Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 115