For the first time, BIPOC farmers in West Michigan will be able to apply for a grant through the West Michigan Farmers of Color Land Fund to help them buy, maintain, and improve agricultural land.
The Kingston Land Trust is in the process of finalizing the purchase of 54 acres of farmland and woods in the Kingston hamlet of Wilbur, which will serve as the home base for its Land in Black Hands initiative.
In this opinion piece, Holly Rippon-Butler with the National Young Farmers Coalition discusses 2023 farm bill policy solutions that would equitably transition farmland to the next generation of young farmers.
This week we talk to Freedom Gerardo—farmer, educator, community leader and Connecticut s first fiber hemp grower at SEAmarron Farmstead in Danbury, CT.