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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

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As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. Grover established a peach orchard in 1935, and cultivated grain and raised livestock until the late 1970s. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

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The rest is distributed to nearby urban and suburban areas in Yolo and Sacramento counties through food programs and community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription boxes—25 percent of it for free. Orchards and other perennials, for example, make more sense when you own your own land because they can take a while to mature.