Harvesting Plantation Supply Chain 
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 From the main house, we drive at 45 mph for 10 minutes, and were still on former plantation land.
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
By reviving Hawaiian self-sufficiency and healing the scars left by plantations, Trask said, awa [presents] an opportunity to restore our sovereignty and our ancestral connection to the land. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Large plantations reemerged in the Delta, worked by sharecroppers rather than slaves. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. After World War I, Blacks began to migrate to cities in the North, looking for more opportunityand less lynching.
Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020. Photo: Zoe Schaeffer) Yet truly sustainable linen will be expensive, at least early on, when the supply chains are still getting up to speed. “People who are working in textiles want [linen],” says Barr.
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. Hummingbird does this by acting as the missing link between the area’s organic farms, retailers, and restaurants, building a regional supply chain that chefs that quickly tap into.
Civil Eats
MAY 21, 2024
Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.
Agritecture Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Workers dump harvested coffee cherries into a truck on a farm in Brazil on June 2. The British had deforested large swaths of land to create industrial-style arabica coffee plantations, turning it into one of the world’s leading coffee producers. Credit: Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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