Rain or shine, a farmer’s work is never done. Farmers grow crops, raise livestock, and gather eggs and milk. Young readers will get an inside look at a day in the life of these important community members!
Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to ...
Black Farmers in America
Johnson-Berry's farm is less than ten miles from a growing urban area, and she is often wary of her new neighbors as housing subdivisions have been steadily built around her farm. Everybody that ever moved in over there, ...
To keep yields up , farmers needed more manure , which meant they needed to house more stock and feed more fodder . Could they ? those along Meadow and English Mowing Concord farmers did keep more stock , it appears .
Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
Ranging in subject from the politics of hunger to the new agricultural biotechnologies, and in time and place from early modern Europe to contemporary Cuba, the contributions to Hungry for Profit examine the changes underway in world ...
Rebecca Thistlethwaite addresses these and other crucial questions in this uniquely important book, which is a must-read for anyone who aspires to get into farming, or who wants to make their farm business more dynamic, profitable, and, ...
Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement." --
When they - - settled in the Win Cities, they would return from visits home with a suitcase full of coffee beans. ... She and her husband came up with the name of their farm while camping in northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters, ...