Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

‘Rhythms of the Land’ Preserves the Untold Stories of Black Farmers Filmmaker and cultural anthropologist Gail Myers discusses the making of her documentary, the oppressive history of sharecropping, and power of seed saving for Black farmers.

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Food Sharecropping Finance Farming 139

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. It had giant combines, chemicals stored in one-ton plastic tanks, and a 12-row planter drilling rice seeds into a field by an oxbow lake. Williams, Harveys grandfather.

Acre 99

Acre Crop Farming Farming 99

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. When the owner of the land where Byron was sharecropping died, he willed Byron at least 10 acres. It really is modern-day sharecropping.

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

Civil Eats

JUNE 4, 2024

Traveling through Appalachia, Tessa Desmond and her team kept hearing the seed stories. He had overheard Desmond discussing seeds with his neighbor. People have hung on to seeds even when they aren’t actively planting and tending them,” says Desmond. We’ve included audio samples of oral histories from the project.

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Food Seeding Farming Farming 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Seed funds came from wealthy friends and friends of friends, some of whom told me they hadn’t fully appreciated what they were supporting. A million palm seeds were soon imported from Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Ivory Coast. “Oh, f**k,” he remembered thinking. ” A mature oil palm in Shambo Porvenir.

Plantation 125

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop 125