Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. Colonel Allensworth envisioned having a Black community where people would be free and independent.

Agriculture 102

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 102

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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.

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Adeeb: There was a loss of farmland, farm traditions, knowledge, and skills being passed from one generation to the other due to migration. Ancestral knowledge is with the people who stayed in the rural areas who are aging out. How will the oral history project support that? When I watch that stuff, I’m so happy.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” Bakers book is a memoir, a history, and an argument for Black Americans to return to rural life. Baker then covers the sharecropping economy and the Great Migration , spanning the mid-1800s through the early 20th century, when Black people transitioned from enslavement to a level of autonomy.

Farmland 131

Farmland Farming Farming Sharecropping 131