Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Community gardens like Baltimore’s Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm provide a wide range of benefits to the community, including providing fresh produce in areas with few places to buy fresh fruits and vegetables and having a positive impact on young people’s lives. Our study, published Jan.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This may seem like an antiquated concern for chefs in an era of global food distribution systems, but it’s an all-consuming preoccupation for Oyster Oyster, a restaurant named after two ingredients—a bivalve and a mushroom —known for their ecosystem benefits. Take chocolate , for instance. Sugar comes with its problems , too. says Rubba.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials. Opala says plantation owners were willing to pay higher prices for dragging these expert farmers across the Atlantic into North American slavery.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Driving his white farm truck from the plantation house through the former Oakley Grove territory last year, Brown emphasizes its size.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. Thats not what happened along the Mississippi.

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

He explores questions of growing populations, inequitable distribution, and environmental harm, suggesting ways to bring us closer to feeding the planet without destroying it. The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua by Alex M.

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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. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.

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