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Thursday, March 8, 2018

Good Food News-Black Farmers Sowing Seeds

This NPR story relates how people of color are becoming farmers for reasons that go beyond merely growing food to sell. Healthy eating, diversity, and sustainable farming practices so that healthy food becomes accessible to those who can't afford it all provided the impetus for two of the farmers featured.

What blew me away in the story was this blaring statistic: "Farming is more than 90 percent white — the second-whitest job in the United States, according to 2016 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics."


The farmers hope to encourage more of diversity among their ranks by hiring interns, focusing on women, people of color and others from underrepresented communities.

For one of the farmers, her "customers who can afford to pay more essentially help support those who don't have the budget. She says her low-income clients get a full box of vegetables each week no matter what."

Another farmer says "It's not just about our happy damn chickens. This is about: How do we fix this system?".

Sowing the seeds of change is a beautiful way to grow.



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