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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. He uses a home-brewed, brown sugar-based fertilizer instead of commercial fertilizer.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. To skirt the reputational risks of buying more land directly, his employees had begun selecting parcels for homesteaders to clear themselves, then lending them money for fertilizer and seedlings. Melka’s team had pitched the idea directly to farmers.