Marketing Plantation Ruralism 
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
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Last fall, Ava Taesali opened Kava Queen , Oahus only brick-and-mortar kava bar, after three years of building a loyal following for this traditional beverage at farmers markets in Honolulu. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.
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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.
Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
Alongside recipes, Sokoh also provides cultural and historical context for the dishes alongside photos from Nigerias landscapes, food markets, and people. But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities.
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.
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.
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.
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