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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.
Daily Yonder
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. But Native communities often lack access to resources such as farming equipment, soil testing, fertilizer and pest prevention techniques.
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The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
The chickens fertilized the trees, ate the grass, and laid eggs. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. That meant he didn’t have to spray for anything. Not only did he eliminate chemical costs, but now he had eggs to sell.
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. And for a few brief promising decades, Allensworth thrived in the way its founders envisioned.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 10, 2024
Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.
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