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

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In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

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Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks.

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