AgriCULTURE

Coverage of agriculture-related news and issues affecting the Appalachian region, with a focus on sustainable farming, rural development, and the contributions of Black farmers. This category highlights how agriculture shapes the local economy and environment.

Hope emerges for WV coalfields as judge orders partial reinstatement of cancelled $300M USDA grant

Farmers in West Virginia’s southern coalfields have new reason to be optimistic this week, after U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell ordered that nearly half of a recently terminated $300 […]

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From Carlo Petrini to Eddie Mukiibi: Why the Future of Slow Food Matters to Black Appalachia

My journey into the global food movement began on a Black family farm in Madison County, Kentucky, located at the foothills of eastern Appalachia. Long before I ever traveled to Italy, met Carlo Petrini, or sat across a table from Edie Mukiibi, I learned lessons about food, land, family, and community from people whose names would never appear in newspapers or history books but who laid the foundation for my work as an agrarian, intellectual activist.

Back to The County: What T&T Organic Farms Is Showing Us About Land Access in McDowell County, West Virginia
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Law expanding West Virginia’s cottage food industry takes effect June 12
Beneath the Surface: What Garlic Teaches Us About Modern Resistance

How a Network of Black Appalachian Growers Is Building Community Food Infrastructure One Clove at a Time

Carlo Petrini and the Great Remembering Through Food
Black By God Launches Solutions Journalism Series on Black Farming and Community Development in Appalachia
They Came to Us: A New Model for Supporting Black Farmers in West Virginia
Who Powers West Virginia—and Who Pays the Price?