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LUGOFF, S.C. (AP) â Sadia Pollardâs father has a memory.
Itâs the 1980s and Pollardâs father, a young man then, drives by his grandparentsâ home and farm in the Chesapeake Bay area. The day is hot. He sees his grandmother bent over and digging in the dirt, maybe pulling weeds or taking a vegetable from the ground. Heâs embarrassed that his grandmother is working the farm, Pollard said.
He thought farming âwasnât respectableâ at the time, said Pollard, who uses nonbinary pronouns.
In some rural communities like their great grandmotherâs, leaving âis the biggest thing you could do,â they said. âTo leave and not have to do what your grandparents did.â
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Bonita Clemons helped feed thousands of South Carolinians in 2020. When I would go to my grandmamma s house, we would play in the fields. Instead of going in the house to eat, we would just eat what was in the fields and we d keep on playing.
Credit: Bonita Clemons
Clemons grew up eating fresh produce right out of the ground at her families farm.
In 2001, she took what she learned from childhood and her health studies and created the non-profit Dianne s Call, named after her mother who passed away at 42.
Credit: Bonita s Mother, Dianne (Courtesy Bonita Clemons) It s part of my mission to help improve the health of African-American women, explained Clemons, so I knew the nutrition is the first line of defense.
Bonita Clemons helped feed thousands of South Carolinians in 2020. When I would go to my grandmamma s house, we would play in the fields. Instead of going in the house to eat, we would just eat what was in the fields and we d keep on playing.
Credit: Bonita Clemons
Clemons grew up eating fresh produce right out of the ground at her families farm.
In 2001, she took what she learned from childhood and her health studies and created the non-profit Dianne s Call, named after her mother who passed away at 42.
Credit: Bonita s Mother, Dianne (Courtesy Bonita Clemons) It s part of my mission to help improve the health of African-American women, explained Clemons, so I knew the nutrition is the first line of defense.