Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

Plantation 113

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? Today, farming is far from a simple livelihood.

Ruralism 52

Ruralism Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Land access was the first step. Still, its taken decades for the practice to spread.

Plantation 52

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 52

Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Dorsey talking about how the cooperative was born out of changing the plantation system, but also ineffective food stamp programs. It was really food as an element of a larger plantation economy, designed to promote a world agricultural market.

Food 82

Food Plantation Agriculture Agriculture 82

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. The farm will have a market center to sell locally grown produce and artisan goods made by residents.

Agriculture 106

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 106

ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

After the slave trade, the population of the island diversified, but the production of sugar cane and other commodity-based plantations eradicated the local indigenous agriculture. The original inhabitants of the island are of Taino descent, and they had a strong background in sustainable indigenous agriculture. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Food Plantation 52

Civil Eats

JUNE 24, 2024

They built a home in rural Virginia, growing their own vegetables and raising chickens, and set off on a mission to make a cheeseburger—this sort of pinnacle of industrial food—from scratch. Cold transport allows banana growers in Central America to access a huge export market. beef market.

Supply Chain 89

Supply Chain Food Manufacturing Technology 89