A Fresh Start For Black Farmers in North Carolina

[Webster]

A fresh start for Black farmers in North Carolina

An effort to help small-scale Black farmers in the Triangle area sell their goods during the coronavirus pandemic continues to go strong with the "Tall Grass Food Box."

www.bpr.org

During the pandemic, the Biden administration attempted to right some of the government’s discriminatory wrongs with billions of dollars set-aside for disadvantaged farmers in the American Rescue Plan.

But before the big rescue, three friends in the Durham area had come up with their own plan to save the Black farmers they knew.

Back in 2020, Gabrielle E.W. Carter, Derrick Beasley and Gerald Harris started their own CSA or community supported agriculture venture called “Tall Grass Food Box.” “We have some Swiss chard, we have lots and lots of kale, which is also known as Dino kale, we have white potatoes, mint, blueberries, three ears of corn,” said Beasley. “We got a lot of new customers today, so we really want to give them a good looking box.”

The “Tall Grass Food Box” collects recently harvested food from a handful of Black farmers, paying a commercial rate. They box up the food and use social media and word of mouth to sell it. The operation is still going strong...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Lol! People buying groceries don’t say I wonder if this is from a black farmer. All farmers are suffering and should be helped so food can continue on our table. This is the kind of stupid shit that has started famines in other countries all for a issue that doesn’t exist in today’s society in America.

 

[Webster]

Lol! People buying groceries don’t say I wonder if this is from a black farmer. All farmers are suffering and should be helped so food can continue on our table. This is the kind of stupid shit that has started famines in other countries all for a issue that doesn’t exist in today’s society in America.

So an effort to help others is a bad thing?

You might live in Florida, but say that to a small farmer living in the Carolinas' or in the Black Belt of Alabama-Mississippi and you might just get an earful. What they're doing above, Serafin, is a good thing, helping out their fellow man and ensuring that local farmers have a dependable place for their crops to go.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

So an effort to help others is a bad thing?

You might live in Florida, but say that to a small farmer living in the Carolinas' or in the Black Belt of Alabama-Mississippi and you might just get an earful. What they're doing above, Serafin, is a good thing, helping out their fellow man and ensuring that local farmers have a dependable place for their crops to go.

Are we having two different conversations and reading different topics when responding?

Where did I say it’s not ok to help others. Communities should and do help others. But this is government picking to help a specific color of a person more than others.

What does Florida have to anything about it? We have huge farms here. We are one the largest cattle growers in the country.

 

[Webster]

We are one the largest cattle growers in the country.

You live in Florida, dude; if I want to hear about cattle growing, I'm not going to Florida, I'll go to Texas.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

You live in Florida, dude; if I want to hear about cattle growing, I'm not going to Florida, I'll go to Texas.

Theres lots of cows in California too, believe it or not.