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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

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. And for a few brief promising decades, Allensworth thrived in the way its founders envisioned.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism

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

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In a county that was intentionally poisonedand a world suffering from a changing climatehe is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp, which is known to sequester carbon and remediate soil, and using earth-friendly organic and regenerative methods.

Plantation

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Agriculture Informer

The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

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

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