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The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access


The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access
Emily Fagan of Humble Hands Harvest in Decorah, Iowa, drives a tractor on the farm.
Photo by Cory Eull
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
Apr 22, 2021
A small, 20-horsepower Kubota tractor inches forward in a sea of John Deeres, with a sticker saying “queerest farm around.” It’s the 2019 Pride Parade in Decorah, Iowa, and this tractor belongs to Humble Hands Harvest, a women-worker-owned farm nestled on 22 acres. The farm’s aim is to present an alternative to industrial agriculture. ....

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Black farmers seek to put down new roots in New England


Black farmers seek to put down new roots in New England
By Brian MacQuarrie Globe Staff,Updated April 10, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Earl Ransom, right, and his son, Jackson, pulled rocks from the bucket of their tractor as they work to repair ruts in the driveway brought on by the advent of mud season on the family s organic dairy farm called Rock Bottom Farm in Strafford, Vt.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
STRAFFORD, Vt. — Earl Ransom stooped beside a feeding trough at Rockbottom Farm and filled his hands with long strands of lush grass, straightening up beside two rows of hungry Guernsey dairy cows who couldn’t get enough of the stuff. ....

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Opinion | Black Farmers May Finally Get the Help They Deserve


March 4, 2021
Many white people have become aware in the last year of the discrimination that Black Americans face in policing, voting, health care and more. Few, however, may recognize that systemic racism led to another grave injustice, one that underpins many other forms of exploitation: More than a century of land theft and the exclusion of Black people from government agricultural programs have denied many descendants of enslaved people livelihoods as independent, landowning farmers.
African-American labor built much of this country’s agriculture, a prime source of the nation’s early wealth. In the years since the end of slavery, Black Americans have been largely left out of federal land giveaways, loans and farm improvement programs. They have been driven off their farms through a combination of terror and mistreatment by the federal government, resulting in debt, foreclosures and impoverishment. ....

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