Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2021, he carried out the ultimate act of reclamation, purchasing the plantation house and surrounding 2.5 Farming Through Four Generations In the early 19th century, Oakley Grove plantation was owned by a medical doctor named Lafayette Browne and his wife, Mary Ann Falcon Browne.

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Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

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. He had spent 25 years working in food manufacturing, mostly outside Arkansas.

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Acre Farming Farming Crop 111

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Mattingly is testing for vigor, bolting, acorn production and elements important to a barrel manufacturer: tannins and taste. The goal of the research repository is to grow all of these variations of white oak under the same conditions in Loretto, Kentucky (the home of bourbon), and see which ones thrive.

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Ranching Acre Forestry Processing 140

Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

The ability to manufacture cold has shaped not just our diet and health, she argues, but our economy, landscape, and geopolitics. Civil Eats spoke with Twilley about her book, how refrigeration has transformed our relationship with food, and the implications of feeding the world’s seemingly insatiable appetite for manufactured cold.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

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Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

millionofthese workers are employed in the food sectorcultivating our produce, manufacturing our processed foods, slaughtering our meat and bussing our tables. DepartmentofAgriculture (USDA) the last plantation and have advocatedforincreased supportforBlack, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian farmers.

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