Changing the narrative of the Black Belt farmer
925,708 1920 No. of Black Farmers
35,470 Today's No. of Black Farmers
15,000,000 1910 Black Acres Owned
4,700,000 Today's Black Acres Owned
Four goats and a donkey bush hog family history back into view. Undergrowth blanket where 19th- and 20th-century kin folk of the Hicks household farmed as part of generational survival. Opposite the livestock-mowing operation holds firmly the Hicks’ home house — as it’s referred. A now paint-peeled, wooden homestead still protected by its original...
Buy processed chicken strips for $20 a bag or go home empty-handed. Those were Vincent Padgett Sr.’s grocery meat options during the global pandemic....
She pushes. He pulls. They both use their bodyweight to heave the makeshift hemp seed dispenser across lumpier soil. Sweat scampers down their melanin-filled...
They spring from the family's Polaris 4-wheeler already knowing the day's duties. Mariah refills the water troughs. Makinzi replenishes the gatefeeders. The 11- and...
What’s the most nutritious, low-cost feed farmers should use on today’s goat farms?
Graduate student Victoria Fitchett, 27, has spent summer 2019 working on the...