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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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The 29-year-old grower has carved a successful niche at local farmers markets selling unconventional crops such as Caribbean red, striped, and fish peppers, stinging nettles, and flowers, all grown using a home-brewed, brown sugar-based fertilizer. He uses a home-brewed, brown sugar-based fertilizer instead of commercial fertilizer.