HUNTINGTON — A Western Regional Jail inmate was indicted by a Cabell County grand jury after another inmate was stabbed in the neck during a fight in April.
Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm By transforming a decaying prison into a flourishing farm, these young men are avoiding the criminal justice system and creating a model to share.
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Civil Eats highlights one farm is working to address issues with the criminal justice system, unemployment, food access and health inequity. For further listening, check out episode 80 of
Meat and Three, which examines ways that farming can be a radical, healing act for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm
Davon Goodwin tended his first grapevines in 2013 three years after he was injured by a bomb in Afghanistan during an Army mission. A first-generation Black farmer, Goodwin sees farming as a way to serve his community. But since he started farming, racial inequality in agriculture has put him back on the front lines, this time battling against climate change.
“It’s been hell,” says Goodwin, who has experienced many major hurricanes in the last six years. Still, he has persevered. After first managing someone else’s crops, Goodwin bought his own 42-acre farm in 2018 with his wife, Kenya Fuller, in Laurinburg, North Carolina where they now grow grapes, blackberries and mixed vegetables.
Wounded Warrior Project Expands Support for Wounded Veterans and their Families with New Funding for Farmers in 2021
Monday Dec 28th, 2020 Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) expanded partnerships to include 12 new and existing veteran and military service organizations to help meet the needs of our nation s wounded, ill, and injured veterans and their families.
Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) was one of the dozen awarded. A national non-profit serving nearly 25,000 veterans turned farmers, FVC creates a new generation of farmers and food leaders while simultaneously offering our veterans a place to heal on America’s farms.
WWP funding will directly support the Farmer Veteran Fellowship Fund. It’s a small grant program that provides assistance to veterans in the early stages of their agricultural careers with the purchase of a piece of equipment. For hundreds of members, the Fellowship Fund has made the difference in the viability of their farming operation.
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