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.
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Throughout the US, we now have an uneven age distribution of oaks, with a lot of oaks nearing maturity, but few very old or very young trees. They experimented with making bourbon for years before they could actually sell it or distribute it. What that’s left us with is an age-gap problem.
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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.
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.
Civil Eats
MAY 21, 2024
A coffee plant wilts in the sun on a plantation near Manizales, Colombia. Mexico’s agriculture department distributed rust-resistant cultivars such as Oro Azteca, Marsellesa, and Costa Rica 95, along with technical assistance on Fair Trade and organic certification. One is specialty coffees, such as shade-grown gourmet varieties.
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.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.
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