Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. For the peas, which are like black-eyed peas but with purple pods and eyes, Coleman and his colleague Percy Baldwin have found a different market.
Modern Farmer
JULY 16, 2024
In the summertime, Montclair Community Farms transforms its less-than-10,000-square-foot lot into a space with something for everyone: a garden education program for children, a job training site for teens, and a pop-up produce market for Essex County residents. Some are even ready to harvest. Our zoning is different here.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. It really is modern-day sharecropping. He found work there as a sharecropper, on a farm down present-day Lickskillet Road.
Modern Farmer
JUNE 30, 2023
After the Civil War, the sharecropping period often involved predatory practices, including low wages and unsafe conditions. There’s not many on the market.” It’s still run by the family today, now growing 100 acres of mostly sweet potatoes, the warm-climate vegetable that is an important staple in African American foodways.
Wisconsin Farmers Union
JULY 9, 2024
While Martice and Amy enjoy selling at farmers markets, their true passion is growing food for people in need in their community. WI LFPA gives many farmers much needed income security through guaranteed contracts and a first introduction to wholesale markets. “WI And it was very, very low stress. But it's not just Black folks.
Daily Yonder
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
So these struggling agricultural regions could get their excess crops purchased by the federal government, and then turn around and not actually provide that subsidized food back to its sharecropping population as intended. 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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