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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. Across the road, peacocks shriek.

Plantation

Plantation Farming Farming Acre

Transforming the Delta

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. When he was fifteen, a tractor flipped over on his father and killed him. The farms had to be large, though, to pay off the machines. All his siblings left, too.

Acre

Acre Farming Farming Crop

Agriculture Informer

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Transforming the Delta

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