I loved coming up with this micro-campaign for @plantwpurpose for Black History Month and it was a good reminder of how indebted I am to many who don’t receive proper credit.
It’s pretty amazing to connect the dots between George Washington Carver’s work in soil conservation or T.M. Campbell’s land management principles to some of my daily work with rural communities and the important regenerative farming techniques that offer promise towards climate.
Over the past century, Black farmers in the United States have lost around 80% of their farmland. This amounts to millions of acres and billions in lost wealth.
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