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

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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. He found work there as a sharecropper, on a farm down present-day Lickskillet Road.

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

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Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country. “You need at least $1 million to purchase farmland in California, and that doesn’t even include the tools, infrastructure, resources, and the labor.” million grant in 2022 to Ujamaa for the purchase of a medium-sized plot of land in Yolo County.