MANNINGTON – Alyssa Ward s race didn’t strike her, or her husband, as relevant until their farming efforts were well underway.
But the connection surfaced for Ward, a Black woman whose parents are from different parts of the Caribbean, while exploring the Internet.
“I follow online a lot of, like, ‘Black girls gardening’ and Black girl farmers,’” she said. “So, these people started these pages as a community for Black females to learn. And I think the one girl, what she said on the page was because, when she started just doing backyard planting, gardening, and looking up stuff online herself … she didn’t see people who looked like her.”