Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. The farms mostly grow commoditiessoybeans, corn, cotton, and rice. 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.

Acre 111

Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Following the formation of the USDA in 1862 and the abolishment of slavery in 1865, many formerly enslaved African Americans pursued independent farming. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming. Let’s backtrack to the post-Civil War era Enslaved people had limited access to land.

Sharecropping 112

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 112

Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

In Montclair’s Third Ward is a tiny farm with big community value. In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents.

Food 123

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 123

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. Now it’s focused on feeding its neighbors with support from across the city.

Food 139

Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 139

The Equation

AUGUST 27, 2024

Following the formation of the USDA in 1862 and the abolishment of slavery in 1865, many formerly enslaved African Americans pursued independent farming. However, most of the land offered was of poor quality and was not suitable for farming. Lets backtrack to the post-Civil War era Enslaved people had limited access to land.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Farming Farming Acre 52

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JULY 9, 2024

Martice Scales and Amy Kroll-Scales founded Full Circle Healing Farm in 2017, leaving stable career paths to start healing their community from the ground up. Full Circle Healing Farm is a two acre vegetable, herb, and flower farm in Mequon. But with the WI LFPA, what we harvested was already sold.

Sharecropping 52

Sharecropping Food Farming Farming 52