Food Plantation Ruralism 
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. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. His first book , “Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement” was published in August 2023 by the University of North Carolina Press. Like what you see here?
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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. For centuries before Europeans reached North America, many Native Americans grew these foods together in one plot, along with the less familiar sunflower.
Sustainable Food Trust
OCTOBER 1, 2024
As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. The farm remains in the family today, and, as well as producing organic food, contains a rich diversity of native woodland and nature corridors.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Jubilee Justice Specialty Foods co-op members. Land access was the first step.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 9, 2024
Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods.
Civil Eats
MAY 6, 2024
They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.
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