Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And in a region where many residents suffer from diet-related illnesses and do not have easy access to grocery stores selling fresh foods, Patrick offers vegetable boxes through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, as well as by producing hemp-derived CBD products meant to reduce chronic pain by holistic, non-pharmaceutical methods.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Modern Farmer

JUNE 30, 2023

After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. It’s still run by the family today, now growing 100 acres of mostly sweet potatoes, the warm-climate vegetable that is an important staple in African American foodways. But the process hasn’t always come easily.

Acre 98

Acre Sharecropping Processing Farming 98

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. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.

Agriculture 134

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 134

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

The heirloom gardens project, a collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , aims to memorialize their long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods. How do you decide what is a culturally meaningful food? It’s incumbent on us to reclaim that.

Food 111

Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community. Still, “it’s difficult to unbuild how land was used to punish us for 400 years,” Mack says, referring to the deep scars left by a history of enslavement and sharecropping.

Cultivation 145

Cultivation Acre Farming Farming 145

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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. It also looks like working to preserve cultural traditions through food, worker-owned land projects, and resource sharing.

Farmland 129

Farmland Farming Farming Sharecropping 129

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

As the grandson of Black farmers, sharecroppers, and farmworkers, I know firsthand how the injustices faced by small farmers and workers plague and hinder our food supply. During his lifespan, most people ate locally sourced and homegrown foods. It must be indelibly imbued into our public policies.

Food 115

Food Plantation Farming Farming 115

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The global market for palm oil, valued at more than $70 billion last year, is experiencing steady growth, driven by its use in products as varied as food, beverages, biofuels, and cosmetics. Melka had sought to bring another 12,000 acres into cultivation through this sharecropping strategy.

Plantation 125

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 125